Why do so many bad thing happen in the name of religion.
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Religion was a good thing when it was created to unite the masses for the ones who designed it. Now religion is hurting the world if people need a relgious code of morals to know whats right and wrong then they should be in jail anyway. I say down with all religious propaganda and if you want to worship thats fine but dont try to press your beliefs on me.
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I was taught to pray to what I don't know and have spent 40 years turning my life around from the disastrous teachings of religion and it terrible affect on people and the wars fought because people disagree on who's god is better.Superstition is going to destroy this beautiful planet! Here you go I forgot greedy people like ddead who want it all and leave no space for anyone else.
240629
Hardly ... it is not religion that is to blame ... but sick individuals that cause the problems. Anyone can use any excuse they want to do bad things, but that doesn't make them a legitamate representative of the religion, philosophy, social movement ... etc, etc, etc.
49948
Hi,\n    My simple answer to is "lack of knowledge" causes such problems. None of the religious in this world is bad or have wrong things write.
168915
Religion is the cause of 90% of the worlds ills.
253251
I believe that there is three main reasons that a person of faith(good person)has bad things happen to them.\n    (1)To enable us to grow closer to God and strengthen our faith.Unless you go through the valleys how do you know your FAITH is real?One word\nJOB\n    (2)To bring us to repentance and renewed fellowship sin in our lives brings chastisement\nHeb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: \nHeb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. \nHeb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? \nHeb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. \n    (3)Living in a sin sick world..The world is the\ndevils play ground Christians will suffer because Jesus suffered when he walked the earth.\n  If you are suffering REMEMBER we are just Pilgrims\npassing through our real home is HEAVEN!!\n                 In Christ in Love,\n                     TJ57
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When people of any faith do things to provoke, bad things happen.  The Imams were removed for making suspicious remarks and behaving in a manner that provoked concern.  The greater good was more important.  They were removed.
261537
Because religion is a big social club and subsequently its members are subject to the mental conditioning of their leaders.  If leaders preach hate, their followers will become hateful.  Within a congregation people are given the right to be prejudiced against other groups who are not "saved".  Members are also lulled into thinking that their sins are forgiven, so a license to do evil is handed out to all who solidly believe.  We are all prejudice in the privacy of our homes, even if we do not admit it.  Religion just brings it out of people.
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Bad things happen to everyone dear.  Because there is sin in the world and life isn't perfect. If nothing bad ever happened to us, we wouldn't appreciate when things are good.  Just remember to be thankful for what you have. :)
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ALL religion causes violence and intolerance of others. Do away with all organized religion, not just Islam.
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There is controversy because no religion agrees with any other one, and everyone thinks only theirs is right. Religion is an intensely personal thing, so if you were to discover yours is wrong, then you are wrong to the core and everything you've believed in has been a waste of time. That's hard to take, so people defend their religions the best they can and try to make the OTHER religions look wrong, which translates to prejudice, quarreling, and becoming barbaric.
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Yes, it is the worst thing. All of them. Because of religion, we have had crusades, genocides, suicide bombings, all types of holy war. The concept of god has done more harm to man than the invention of the gun. You do not need a religion to fill the voids. You should use your head. The voids make you think, and those that can't turn to religion. When the cave men could not understand lightning (for example), they made up god, so they could just say "God did it". If you need the voids filled, anyone can do it. I could easily make a myth about how the world works, and it would explain everything, I could just say the creator did it. My creator could by a six headed cat. This would be no more ridiculous than god. Science is the only real explanation, not some cult belief in a fairy tail imaginary friend of the human race that is watching all of us.
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Because of politics and religion.
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Not all religions are, just a lot of them. And yes, it's a great way to control people, I'm sure that's partly why they were created.
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Religions are not good or bad, or, right or wrong.  It is people who make them that way.  There are people who seek religion for truth, and there are people who use it, to make excuses for there actions.  I am sure that you have seen the later more.\n\nSatan does he exist or is he just a made up boogie-man who scares us into church, so they can take our money?  Obviously I am bias.  What is going to rule your life?  How you feel or how someone tells you to think?\n\nThere are no hard facts in faith.
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there is bad and good in every group and religion. no one is perfect. remember according to Islam it is forbidden to say something wrong about Jesus and the other prophets. \nalso, in the Quran (i can't remember where the verse is) it says don't curse other religions so they won't curse Allah..\ni am pretty sure that there are verses in the Bible that say something similar to that..\nbut don't forget there is bad and good every where. just try to be a model yourself and don't worry about how bad others behave. there is a judgment day and we are going to be rewarded according to our deeds. \nthere are also very kind Christians over here just look deep enough and you will see how much nice people there are in the other world.
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A very good thing is that it grounds a society with some moral value system - this a central theme of most religions.\nUnfortunately that very grounding when taken too literally can drive extreme behavior and rather than create an inclusive cohesive world, it's differences can create rifts in our willingness to accept each other for who we are rather than what we believe.