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if you think that stops religious people from idk becoming mafiosos and making their life better i got some news for you comrade.
not all religious people believe in a hell, not everything you would consider to be bad is religiously bad, like snitching on someone for example, or doing something that unkowingly causes harm to someone else. then there is stuff the most consider bad like getting into a serious fight while a whole bunch of people just sit around watching doing nothing.
religion is for everyone, the problem exists when people 'interpret' it in a way that either absolves them of any wrong doing, because they don't have a solution to a problem that their text can solve or simply for profit.
anyway, stressing and over thinking things will kill you faster than cigarettes…nothing wrong with believing in a god and making up your own rules as long as they're universally just and you dont try to peddle your ideals to people who don't want to listen, or take advantage of the weak willed.
good and bad, it seems to me, is older than religion.
i'd like to see the number of scientists who are religious. it's probably really suprising…theyre probably the only ones that can't be bought…
on the subject of the thread though, i thought for the longest time that who we are and what we think is simply the culmination of our experiences up until the point of that thought and still do.
where those thoughts come from though, that's debatable…nobody knows.