On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:04 PM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > >> but it's very easy to find evidence that Osama bin Laden did >> >> what he did for religious reasons, all you need to do is look at just >> about >> >> anything he ever said or wrote in his life. Even George W. Bush said >> he >> >> ordered the invasion of Iraq because an invisible man in the sky told >> him >> >> to. I can't think of a reason I should disregard all that and not >> take what > > > > * > The people you mentioned are the leaders (religious, political). They > are not normal, not average.*
But it is the leaders, not the average, who make history and in the case of religion a very very dark history. Outside of death itself I don't think anything has caused more human misery than religion. For every dying person who is comforted by the thought of heaven there are 10 that are terrified of the prospect of hell because religious leaders tell them that the entry requirements for heaven are so strict that virtually nobody measures up, and the only alternative is torture by an omnipotent being for an infinite number of years, although the leaders do not make clear if the infinity in question can be put into a one to one correspondence with the integers or if the Real Numbers are required. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> rnrq *hwc* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0gB9Eeb5Dz1%3D%2BUV3suG-cU8wn0TbJkUCF7sinLHRFMXw%40mail.gmail.com.
