10 things to do instead of going on social media

I would say before you do 8, please study and do these 8 things to make a good decision.

1. Read a book about world history, all places, all wars etc. You can find these to be around 2000 pages long but they summon up some of the things.
2. Read a book about all religions in human kinds history, old religions which whom many where later added together to create new religions (christianity for example is a meshup of pagan beliefs in many ways).
3. See if you can connect the dots between religion, power, money and wars as instruments of power and controlling large numbers of people.
4. Reflect on why you believe what you do, would you still believe in your god if you where born 1000 years ago in say Asia or is it mostly because you happened to be born here at this moment? What does that mean?
5. Think about if leaving your destiny up to something that you can not prove exist and pray to it is better than taking your own responsibility over your life as a solution to your problems.
6. Read the bible, especially the old testament and look at how the christian god act, is this really a rolemodel to follow? Killing, envious, jealous etc. The old testament is as much apart of the religion as the new testament.
7. Does religion bring more good to the world or does it divide us and create wars, differencies etc. How has it been through history, ISIS, Holy wars in Jerusalem, killing of pagans, the spanish in latin america etc? Has these religions actually killed more than the people that do not believe in them and what does that tell us?
8. Is religion relevant for moral or was there moral before the perticular religion you are a part of? Do other people outside this religion not have morals?

 

1- Very useful thing to do if one is inclined.
2 - Also a very good exercise. I suggest The Religions of Man by Hudson Smith.
3 - Connecting dots doesn't mean causation unless you're a conspiracy theorist.
4 - It means we're very much influenced by our family community and ancestors.
5 - If it helps why wouldn't I? It's nice to say I take responsibility over an addiction, but that doesn't necessarily give me the power to stop it.
6 - The old testament does not promote killing, enviousness, or jealousy. It specifically forbids it.
7 - Bad things have been done in the name of religion, but I think even worse are done without it, i.e Soviet Union.
8 - I'd say it's relevant for morals, and yes people of most religions in the world have similar morals.

 

3. To be honest to see how society has used religion as means of power to control the mass is not really much of a conspiracy. It's as much conspiracy as to say that the army or wealth has been used or flags and symbols to control people.
4. Yes but how do you then know that your god out of thousands are the only true one?
5. I would beg to differ, I think it's the complete opposite we need, people that take responsibility for their lives and actions and not put it in some misty figure or "fate".
6. Well god does like the smell of burning blood and does kill a lot of innocent people in that book. So no, not a good role model.
7. Of course, bad things have been done by all sorts of people but religion and greed are two of the big ones when it comes to cause.
8. However, all beliefs before organised religion had morals. Even before that, humans before we became homo sapiens (for us that don't believe the world is seven thousand years old...) had some kind of morals seeing we did not kill each other until there was no one left. Religion has collected knowledge and some wisedom I would say that but the problem is usually to pray to a deity instead of believing in your self and human kind. That's my take at least.

However, good to chose a way, and as long as religion is private, not forced upon others like it is in for example the USA nowadays it's all fine. Practice it at home, pray to spagetthimonster or jahve or Allah. Just don't spread it and don't make others believe what you do. And don't say life is sacred and all these other things that are just not true. Life is not sacred. Death is not sacred. It's an ongoing process.

 

Much more noble is to spread how awful it is.

 

It is worth considering for sure, I would change some things and focus more on becoming better yourself instead of putting into "fate", "god" or something else, that's all

 

No reason why you can ask for help while trying to better yourself

 

11. Move around! We are not meant to be sedentary. Walk, cycle, run, dance, jump, anything!

Writing this on my couch where I have been for the last hour and a half ... whoops!

 

no skin in the game but those statements are inaccurate.
6-The Bible calls him/it “a man of war” (Exodus 15:3), the God who repeatedly commands the wholesale slaughter of every foreign man, woman, and child who occupies the land of the Jews, the “blood-spattered God” of Abraham, and Moses, and Jacob, and Joshua (Isaiah 63:3), the God who “shatters the heads of his enemies,” bids his warriors to bathe their feet in their blood and leave their corpses to be eaten by dogs (Psalms 68:21–23)—His commands to “love your enemies” and “turn the other cheek” must be read as being directed exclusively at his fellow Jews and meant as a model of peaceful relations exclusively within the Jewish community. The commands have nothing to do with how to treat foreigners and outsiders. They shall not live in your land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence#:~:text=For example, in Deuteronomy 20,as commands to commit genocide.

7-ten millions ppl died under the early soviet regime whilst stain was in charge, most of them from starvation of a similar proportion to the irish famine and remember famine was endemic to russia and most agrarian nations pre-industrialization.

Prior to that most genocides were done by religious nations, about 30% of germany died during the 30 year war, the americas and australia were depopuated by religious inspired colonization, 20 millions died in the taiping rebellions, christians nazi germany killed over 25 millions just counting the soviets, the god emperor of japan around 20 millions or so.

The problem is not socialism, capitalism or even religion but authoritarianism and unrestricted power. Being religious or not religious is not going to make more someone or less criminal.

 

I was referencing the ten commandments regarding killing and jealousy. I personally don't believe the ten commandments meant Jews only couldn't steal from and murder other Jews, but we're all entitled to our own opinion.

When I mentioned the U.S.S.R. I was thinking about the great purge, but you make it sound like Stalin and his 5 year plan couldn't be at fault, that's just nature. I disagree but again we're all welcome to our own opinion. I agree that faith has certainly been used as an excuse by countries to kill, certainly the crusades and S America colonization is a fair example of catholics doing this. That's not the same thing as WW2. Hitler didn't go to war and kill Jews in the name of Christianity. Hirohito didn't commit pearl harbor for the supremacy of Shintoism.

I don't believe the jury is out on this question. Imo it should help, but I'd think your specific tenants and actual beliefs matter.

 

then you must overestimate casualties of the great purge, and about the famine stalin indeed was mainly responsible for the numbers of deaths but as i said it was endemic of russia(and stopped with him), before the reds took over there was a famine in the 1980s that took over 1 millions lives.
The thing is capitalist always use double standard when it come to starvation under these communist regime, a similar percentage of the bengalis population died under british rule but they do not get 1/10 of the attention of the ukrainian genocide*.

why exclude N america? more natives in S america survived the colonization, today they make up the majority of the population if you count the mixed race descendants.

and what you say here is that neither hitler nor hirohito started ww2 for religious purpose but the soviet killed because of it? why then so many orthodox and muslim survived nearly a century of soviet rule? Hirohito made koreans worship him as a god emperor and he would have done the same in china and any other place his army conquered for him.

 

Okay guy. Religion sucks communism is the way. Honestly don't got the heart to argue with people on this site anymore. Best of luck.

 

You are getting upset for no reason, I am not trying to argue with you here, you have made some insubstantial claims and I provided you with evidence that suggest otherwise.

Nowhere on this thread did I say anything that could be interpreted as “religion suck and communism is the way”, I clearly said that authoritarianism is the root of all problems and contrary to your claim there is no evidence that being non-religious is going to make you more likely to commit crimes or atrocities, when christian germany or shinto Japan kill millions in war for you this has nothing to do with their religion but atheist soviet killing millions of their citizens all you see is their lack of religion.

 

I'm upset honestly bc I'm going through a rough relapse, and it makes me view things in a negative light. I believe religion can have a positive impact on one's life, and it troubles me when I see people speak so disparagingly about it on this site. Wasn't trying to proselytize, just responding to the idea that you aren't a fool for believing in the "spaghetti monster in the sky." Perhaps I shouldn't have said the USSR was worse than countries before it, my point was that people w/o religion kill as well. I said that I don't think it's as clear cut as you say that religion doesn't have an effect on crime, but admittedly don't have evidence to back up that claim.