I thought Mao and Stalin got rid of religion and brought wonderful change. There is so much stupidity from Liberals in this thread it's pathetic.
Rob M. Probably won't produce the results you think you want, or what you expect. I love when people blame religion for certain problems... not the idiots actually carrying out the bad stuff.
M: Can't see any probably about it. The only caveat I would offer is that what religion becomes after the death of the light that brought it is mechanical, it is corrupted by those who don't even get their own religion. So the problem is not religion but corrupted religion and the corruption of the people who practice it.
zsdersw: One of the constants in the universe is change. Change is never guaranteed to be for the better or for the worse, but the idea of change itself is essentially good.
In this example, of course, changing what takes the place of religion in our politics is good.. whether or not what succeeds religion is "for the better". If what comes after religion is better than religion, we should change again to avoid becoming stagnant. If what comes after religion is worse than religion, we should change again to avoid what's bad.
M: The idea of change is essentially good? What kind of horse shit is that? And by the way, the change we see in the universe is called entropy or heat death. The background radiation is down to absolute 3 degrees, no?
It is typical that liberals like change, any old change at all, but conservatives realize that chaos is change too. It is much more difficult to build order that to destroy it. This is why liberals need conservatives, to keep them from being stupid.
What will change is not religion to atheism, but religion to new religion. We are not alone and the human mind knows it. There are only circles of one truth that cover us all. Even the notion that religion will die is a religion, a dream of a better day. And that's a religion folk will grow out of too. God created man or man created God and nobody can tell the difference. The destruction of religion is just another attempt to find God.