The sheer brutality of our human conflicts, done in the name of and/or justified by religion, captures the definition of evil.
To believe such actions are “good”, “holy” and “necessary” is gaslighting at its most sinister and base form.
I don’t believe religion itself is evil. I do believe, however, that religions generally speaking do more harm than good. They have given us a reason to not truly listen to and learn from each other’s different points of view.
So I definitely stand in the “spiritual, not religious” classification. I embrace God. I embrace Love Your Enemies. I even embrace the primal desire for religion. But as they exist in our world, they to me clearly do more harm than good.
Ranjeeth Thunga
PerspectiveMapper.org
rkt@perspectivemapper.org
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