How many countries are there today where most of the population live in poverty because of religion?
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How many countries are there today where most of the population live in poverty because of religion?You assume that losing religion = moving forward. It doesn't. Losing the heavy influence of churches is an improvement, but for individuals, religion is not necessarily a barrier at all.
How many countries are there today where most of the population live in poverty because of religion?
I don't get it because there is nothing to get, your God is in your mind which means all you can do is TALK about your God, if you stopped believing tomorrow where would your God go? it does happen you know.
You started out by saying there is a lot to get but you forgot to tell me what.Actually there is a lot to get. I'm not even talking about god AT ALL, I'm talking about putting your self in anothers' shoes - to see that we each have our own experiences and knowledge, and none of it is absolute or perfect. Which is a FACT. I'm not talking about beliefs or dogmas, or anything visible or invisible.
No I haven't, but what good would it do? you only believe it because someone introduced you to it and told you it was true, apparently it's a lot of books that were written a long long time ago by a lot of different people, it has since been changed a few times via translation (not intensionally) by different translators, also I am told that there are different versions of NT depending on what has been decided should be believed by different sects, I think the Catholic version is different as well but I don't know.dingdong,
Have you ever read the New Testament to actually evaluate for yourself if the claims about Jesus Christ are true? I'm reading the Qur'an, and I've studied other religions as well. If not, why?
No I haven't, but what good would it do? you only believe it because someone introduced you to it and told you it was true, apparently it's a lot of books that were written a long long time ago by a lot of different people, it has since been changed a few times via translation (not intensionally) by different translators, also I am told that there are different versions of NT depending on what has been decided should be believed by different sects, I think the Catholic version is different as well but I don't know.
Losing religion will be the single most advantageous thing humanity will have ever done for itself, just as children start to grow up when they stop believing in Santa Claus so humanity will start to move forward.
How many countries are there today where most of the population live in poverty because of religion?
I think you have got that a little bit wrong, I think all of the creativity stopped when Islam came along,[Citation Needed]
Most of our modern knowledge is based upon the findings of religious people. Without the Islamic Middle East, we would not have received many pillars of modern maths when we did. That doesn't make religion the foundation of knowledge, but it does show that it hasn't been much of an impediment in many cases.
How many countries are there today where most of the population live in poverty because of religion?
Saudi Arabia has only just arrived in the 20th century, India has more religions than you can shake a stick at and most of it's population are living in slums, Afghanistan was run by the Tali ban for the benefit of it's religion, Ireland was run by Catholicism.Somewhere between none and very few, but I'm edging towards none.
Yes my family, how about you?Is there anyone on this earth that you would sacrifice your life for in order for them to continue living?
Saudi Arabia has only just arrived in the 20th century, India has more religions than you can shake a stick at and most of it's population are living in slums, Afghanistan was run by the Tali ban for the benefit of it's religion, Ireland was run by Catholicism.
Religions have been responsible (or the people who were leading them) for more poverty and pain than most diseases.
Religions were there not to help people but to subjugate them, slavery was backed by religions.
Religions were used to control people, read your history books.
More people hated religion than loved it because they feared it, it could ruin their lives if they fell out with it.
I think you have got that a little bit wrong, I think all of the creativity stopped when Islam came along,
I could be wrong perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the middle east could answer that one.
Gosh, did you even hear of colonialism? Look it up, will ya?Saudi Arabia has only just arrived in the 20th century, India has more religions than you can shake a stick at and most of it's population are living in slums, Afghanistan was run by the Tali ban for the benefit of it's religion, Ireland was run by Catholicism.
I know a lot of maths started in the Middle East, I just didn't know if it was before Islam or during.Nope. Mathematics in the Mideast during the Ottoman Empire was far more advanced than that in the west...concepts like "zero" came out of there. The influence of Arabic mathematics was such that the numeric characters used in Western society are based on Arabic numerals.
I know a lot of maths started in the Middle East, I just didn't know if it was before Islam or during.
What colonialism was there in Saudi or Afghanistan?Gosh, did you even hear of colonialism? Look it up, will ya?
Funnily enough, your rationalization comes awfully close to how the colonial powers justified their exploitative politics to begin with.
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