Originally posted by: IamRaj96
The USA killed 168 girls in Iran. Im not going to defend them at all, they are evil, and i know that. But the regime has killed around 40k of its own people. The USA is still a foreign country but the regime is killing its own citizens. I dont understand why some people conveniently ignore that fact.
Personally I don't ignore any fact... and - to me - one of those facts is that certain religions became convenient power tools to satisfy own interests (mostly related to interests of men)... I could write a lot about why most of religious texts had been written (and - conveniently - rewritten/'explained') almost exclusively by men.
However, as much negativity came and comes out of the misuse of religions, as much religions also have positive outcomes (mostly related to a beneficial sense for humanity instead of being related to egocentric, sexual and pathological motivations).
Every regime where the killing of people is done by official forces, strives on giving reasons for those murders - religious (self-made) laws are just one of them... the true reasons basically have nothing to do with religion but with the human mindset and its basic triggers... fuelling religious hate is a convenient tool to give an outlet when venting frustrations... making a religion 'superior' to another belief system is a tool of giving power to subjugate a biiig amount of people through instilling fear for life and justifying murders and massacres.
At all times, belief systems got used as a tool (like an instrument or weapon) by elected or designed people (mostly men) - either for the common people's benefit or for vested own interests.
Imo, there is only one belief system that isn't used to harm people but to elevate them, that would be based on the nature on earth and its connection with the forces of the Universe... that also would - probably - empower people to use more of the brain substance humans have. There is no intelligence that can top what nature did and does and there is no influence more important than that of the Universe. Human intelligence has its own creativity - without any doubt - for the better and/or the worse.


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