fidobsa wrote:anns wrote:I respect all religions and peoples individual beliefs.
Religion: The most effective way to incite hatred ever devised by mankind.
I thought the most effective way to incite hatred ever devised by mankind was to say you liked pineapple on your pizza.
Being a heathen, I like pineapple on my pizza. Oh.... the hatred that pours forth from others after my confession....
But seriously most any institution, aside from pizza toppings, such as religion, political parties**, even nation states, are all compartments that can be enabled to breed and enforce tribalism.
But such issues need not, by definition, be so entwined, and can be separated of course, if people would only actually take the time to do so. In that, as one example, I rather like what the Hungarian philosopher Béla Hamvas said, which I can not quote directly, so will paraphrase (hopefully accurately): True faith in God lays beyond religion.
** I agree with George Washington there.