@cicerone imposter,
Quote:Most religious sects have dogma that runs against the grain of common sense
Don't get me started on the hypocrisy inherent in many who lay claim to being pious....that deceitful display of religious intentions. In my personal opinion, extremism is based on perversion of religion which we see in the Islamic faith, the Pentecostal Religion, and the Roman Catholic Church. But hypocrisy exists in all religions simply because we are an imperfect species; I have witnessed such by the many child abuse cases which appear in the media with the Priest, Rabbis, Ministers tried for sexual crimes; I see how the RCC covered up the sexual abuse of little boys down through the centuries. How many Nuns out of sexual frustration take their problems out on their pupils.
Outside my school there are so-called "Jesus followers" people handing out religious tracts with negative writings regarding Hebrews, "Jewish merchants" in the Temple and how they killed Jesus. You would think the Catholic Church had changed and would teach that Pilate, the Roman Governor passed the law to have Jesus crucified.
Now in the deep south, US, there are Snake-handling churches using snakes in their religious rituals. How braindead can one be?! We were born with a brain which many of us refuse to use...one doesn't deliberately place themselves into harm's way, and surely a poisonous snake will kill 90% of the time. No reasonable thinking person will pick up a poisonous reptile, yet these fundamentalists Pentelcostals believing a god will protect them are going ahead with their rituals. Some people within these cults have died, some have been bitten and lost limbs.
"There is no fixing stupid!"