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So...is religion a subtle joke I am just now noticing?

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Well it's no news most (if not all) religions are a joke to anyone with a couple (or more) brain cells to rub together...(insert mental masturbation joke here)...but this is different.

I propose religion proposes to kill man. Confused yet? Read on.

So a lot of religions are into human sacrifice. Heck most of them are pretty much based off of that. Back in the day they'd sacrifice anything to "appease the gods" so to speak. Lambs, goats, children, virgins...the list goes on.

In fact the more "pure" the spirit the better and more appeasing the sacrifice.

Christianity pretty much espouses that Christ died for your sins. In other words, he was sacrificed because others sinned. So in order to appease God who is angry because humans are flawed and sin, he sent his kid to be tortured and sacrificed. Feel free to correct me if this is incorrect.

So now, here's the point of all this. The goal seems to be to kill off the pure, kind souls leaving us with the SOBs that sin the most.

If you think this makes no sense you might not be alone except for one cold fact: overpopulation is bad mmk?

So perhaps the goal of religion is to leave us with psycho killer bad guys in order to cause more war and destruction to slow the population growth.

In essence if you don't slow the population growth somehow nature will pick several (perhaps distasteful to some) way of declining population growth for you. So it seems religion doesn't want to leave it up to nature but to in a sense control nature's way of stemming population growth.

This would explain evil dictators, Hollywood's penchant for violence and a host of other crap I'm sure you can think of. Also that crazy guy with the orange hair.

These bad guys pass on their genes because they killed nice guys like Jebus and let Barabas free. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Barabas

So now we are left with looney tunes genetics because Religion.

Maybe the founders of Religion thought that war and violence would be better than famine, pestilence or whatever. Or maybe they didn't think that far ahead. Who knows.

What do you think?
 
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Why would it get locked? Because it's anti-religion?

You're entitled to:
1) Post the antithesis of the OP
2) Make an anti-atheist thread of your own
3) Make a pro-religion thread of your own
or 4) Crawl into a fetal position

but why oh why would you want to censor ideas, even if they're wrong? Especially if they're wrong?
 
disappoint said:
Why would it get locked? Because it's anti-religion?

You're entitled to:
1) Post the antithesis of the OP
2) Make an anti-atheist thread of your own
3) Make a pro-religion thread of your own
or 4) Crawl into a fetal position

but why oh why would you want to censor ideas, even if they're wrong? Especially if they're wrong?
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If you want a real discussion on the matter there happens to be a forum better suited for it.

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=63
 
Elegant proposition, but you're starting off with the flaw that there's a god involved. That's my assumption anyway since it looks like you're proposing a natural solution to the human problem. If we go by the obvious assumption that there are no gods, that leaves humans as the designers, and they're too stupid for that.
 
I think you're wrong about religion being tailor made for population control, but maybe correct about the effects. Any time you consistently remove genes that produce evolutionarily advantageous individuals, you hurt the species. Well you would be correct if we had kept sacrificing people in the name of religion. Since we have largely stopped, any unintended consequences of the period in which human sacrifice was practiced have likely self-corrected.

To be honest, I think we're currently engaged in a much more harmful kind if artificial selection now than religion ever caused.
 
lxskllr said:
Elegant proposition, but you're starting off with the flaw that there's a god involved. That's my assumption anyway since it looks like you're proposing a natural solution to the human problem. If we go by the obvious assumption that there are no gods, that leaves humans as the designers, and they're too stupid for that.
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Thanks, but I don't propose anywhere that there is a God, rather that there are people who believe there is.

It seems as if either people really believed their God wants bad guys to carry on (including genetically) and wants good guys to be killed, or wanted others to believe that.

Humans as designers and too stupid for that could be why things are the way they are, and it seems to be something that would get worse under such a system.
 
Crono said:
If you want a real discussion on the matter there happens to be a forum better suited for it.

http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=63
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If the mods feel this thread would be more appropriate in the discussion club subforum they are very well capable of moving it there as well as deciding so without our intervention.


pete6032 said:
No, because it's stupid.
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Maybe you're stupid. See what I did there? Gave no reason. If you really think a thread is stupid, maybe it'd be best to stay out of it and find one better suited to your ermmm talents. 😉
 
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