Reply #247: Where Did You Hear That?

[SPKrazy]

just kidding

Yes religion or rather religious people have been responsible for a large percentage, if not the majority of evil things done to people.

Why is that?

I think that it is because people are fear based for the most part and intolerance is based in fear.

Intolerance leads to some pretty nasty stuff. Human evil I believe can be traced to fear and intolerance for the most part. Then throw in a few sociopaths who feed on the masses fears and you have a movement of fear based ideology.

So, Elton has a right to make his observations. Not all religious people will fit his description, but unfortunately religion has a long history of easily meeting his expectations, and the current mood in many religious circles seems to be to be to look for a scapegoat to blame the problems of today on.

Gays, Lesbians, and others make scapegoats because they are "different" in the eyes of a fear based person, or group.

It is a sad thing to see that religion is still in this day and age used as a hammer to hit the heads of the people who are fearful. Not saying I'm not a person who has fear, but I try to realize that my fear is my fear and not the result of some easily scapegoated group or person(s)