In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses. Pew Research Center.
I think a lot of the evil done in the name of Religion really boils down to money, land, and power. Religion is just a convenient vehicle to get those things.
It is the mechanism by which you get normal people to fund and promote horrible acts. How else could you get your grandmother to pay for hiding pedophiles from the law?
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MoneyReligion is the root of all evil.”I think a lot of the evil done in the name of Religion really boils down to money, land, and power. Religion is just a convenient vehicle to get those things.
It is the mechanism by which you get normal people to fund and promote horrible acts. How else could you get your grandmother to pay for hiding pedophiles from the law?
Money, threats of violence, grandma could be related to them, grandma could be a pedo herself… Just to name a few.
Sorry i mean WILLINGLY pay.