Quote Originally Posted by Punish_her View Post
Thank you for bringing this up. This is one of the most infuriating things I've found about anti-religious people.
I'm not religious, but it is completely unfair to take one example and say "see how bad religion is!!??"
saying this reflects the average christian's mentaility is a crock of shit. has violence been done in the name of God? yes, in the name of Allah? yes, in the name of Yahweh? yes. Has it been done by staunchly anti-religious people? of course, but nobody says that because Mao, Stalin, and Hitler didn'tgo to church every nonbeliever is a psychopath. Even emongst animal rights groups you'll find violent, intolerant extremists
Mao and Stalin did, if I am correct, go heavily against religion, but Hitler called upon it - Kinder, Kirche, Kuche, women making soliders for Der Faterland, working in the kitchen, and being churchgoers were good women. Why the church? Because it keeps them in their place. In a lot of former facist contries (like for instance Spain) the Catholic church was heavily in bed with the facist regime, both getting more control by the alliance. So much so, that it is only in recent years that that grip is loosening. That is why the could for instance do the baby stealing thing for so many years, in even now these crimes are not to justice, though they might be.

The debatre here is not about your individual church goer or religious person, but about the social impact on society, as a society, by dogmatic religions. I would like to mention the Pope's many very anti this and that policies, while many individual nuns and priests, and just your individual religous person, choose to go another way.