Criticizing Religions

[xerx]

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg

(although he should perhaps have said faith or superstition instead).

I don't totally disagree, but I think that there is more to the story. Religion exists in a state of flux, as a superposition of both good and bad, and it can both sharpen and dampen either tendency depending on the person & situation. The same ideology that spurs on the destruction of cathedrals is also responsible for building them.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

I don't totally disagree, but I think that there is more to the story. Religion exists in a state of flux, as a superposition of both good and bad, and it can both sharpen and dampen either tendency depending on the person & situation. The same ideology that spurs on the destruction of cathedrals is also responsible for building them.

I think all religion (faith, superstition etc.) is bad, but when it is organized, especially so, because that is when it is invariably totalitarian.

[xerx]

I think all religion (faith, superstition etc.) is bad, but when it is organized, especially so, because that is when it is invariably totalitarian.

I don't disagree that centralized religion is easily captured by authoritarians.