If you're controlled to do good things where is the problem ?
Some people better be controlled by religion rather than harming their fellow-citizens..

And how is this a news btw ??

controlled to do good things? so the fact middle eastern fundamentalists are blowing up buildings and crashing planes, killing not only those in the plane, but others in buildings.
so tell me, where is the "controlled to do good" aspect come into play?
i also failed to mention christians and catholics. of course, there's other religions too, who years ago did many unspeakable and brutal tihngs, but i can't quite think of anything at the moment.
someone else should elaborate on this?

If people truely applied precepts explained in their religion they wouldn't do any harm. It's just because there are extremists that you say that. But extremists are a minority..
I don't believe in god and i don't seek any excuse for the crimes some reglious nuts could have commited centuries ago, but you can respect people that live their religion in a good way by not trying to generalize.

so should we follow what Jesus said to the letter?
ok, here we go
let's find people who don't believe in him, and slay them
he did say that, remember that.

Orly ? :o
I'm no religion expert but i thought it was more moderated than that :x

moderates are a gateway for fundamentalism
as a whole, people need something to identify with(thanks for pointing this out Lograde)
and religion can offer that
but
some take it too far
some become zealots
these are the people who take "holy text" and have a perverse perspective of it
and strap themselves to bombs, crash into buildings, or start a website like GodHatesFags.com

yarly

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=...;version=9

passage 27

http://bible.cc/luke/19-27.htm

ok I actually bothered to read that bunch of incomprehensible crap, and I don't think that's actually a jesus quote, rather jesus quoting some other "certain nobleman" in a story he once told. hard to decypher in this gibberish tho.

like how the nazis were controlled, by their faith, into nearly exterminating the jews, who were viewed as the enemies of christ?

ty ty

tho nazis didnt give much crap about christianity.

hitler was very much so a catholic

Only nominally and politically. He clearly didn't believe in the Jewish-Christian-Muslim God.

Can we talk about real religion ?
To me Hitler has never been the messiah of any religion, it was just brainwashing through politics and propaganda of stupid clichés..

/me is so bored to hear about holocaust everyday on every subject...

it doesn't matter if hitler thought he was god or believed in christianity or w/e. the point is that he invoked christ in nearly every public speech he had ever given and that the entire nazi population were justifying their atrocities with their religious beliefs.

I heard they justified by sayinf they had no choice : it was kill or get killed. But Bush also talked about God like he was a messiah in a lot of his speech and most of americans seemed to believe in his shit : does that make it a religion ?

Well don't bother answering i don't care enough about religion anyway :p

Sounds like Islam.

Jesus died for me, my sins are forgiven in advance.

izi

Pat Condell.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit: Season 2, Episode 6: The Bible: Fact or Fiction?

Scary, I was just about to post the exact same link.

Pat Condell is brilliant, think of Richard Dawkins after a few beers and talking to himself on a webcam about all the things that he really thinks about religion and all the bullshit that modern thinking western people have to deal with.

Yeah, he's awsome :) Pat Condell for World President :P

Christopher Hitchens vs. Al Sharpton (live debate -- May 7th, 2007)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=891776135764757633

amen!