After only one year of Taliban rule, girls and women have almost disappeared from Afghan society. They are not allowed to travel, to work alone, to go to public parks, to talk or laugh in public, and they are not allowed to study and to go to school... Photo: Boushra Almutawakel
@baarda "Religion poisons everything"- Hitch
@Ponygirl
Not religion but extremism
@baarda
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda The OP was right. Religion is a human construct designed to oppress
@sirloinstake
Actually a religion is made to find answers to the inexplicable, the magic, a way of life, the meaning of life. With religion cames habits and coutumes, celebrations (just see solstice pagan celebrations)... But also extremism wich open the door to hate, opression, etc.
@Ponygirl @baarda
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda If you put it like that, science is the new religion and God (in whatever shape or form) has no place in it

@sirloinstake
No because a religion suggest also a part of mysticism (spirits, gods, places), legends (heroes, stories, places too) and as I said, a way of life, habits and coutumes, so culture to (food, dress, etc). And TRY to explain inexplicable...

Science is made of facts and History, allow understand "why" with clues, improve the life and possibilities (medicine, engineering etc).
Transfom Magic is not magic because (explanations and comprehention)...

@Ponygirl @baarda

@sirloinstake

Magic is just science that we don't understand. And science that we don't understand can be TRY to be explain by religion as "it is God' Will"

@Ponygirl @baarda

@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda "Real magic is fake, and fake magic is real" -Matt Dillahunty
@Ponygirl
And when magic is understood, it is not magic anymore neither religion thing... It becomes science
@sirloinstake @baarda
@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda I think I agree with this, but I can't think of anything religious that has become science. Any examples?

@Ponygirl
Meteorological and geological facts for example. πŸ˜‰

@sirloinstake @baarda

@JCF @sirloinstake @baarda Maybe some wonder emanated from religious teachings, but people investigated irregardless of religion.
@Ponygirl @JCF @baarda and were vilified for it, you only have to take Galileo as one example

@sirloinstake
For a matter of power, I agree.
And some people want also destroy what is misunderstood.

Actually science and religion are corrosive to each other

But now some religions have a kind of assembly of scientists well known, estimated.

Β«Since along time, we though science will throw religious function, but It was a mistakeΒ» H. Reeves

@Ponygirl @baarda

@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda They also want to destroy what is understood if it corrupts others against their way of thinking

@sirloinstake
As I said and I maintain my position and opinion:

Since humanity exists, the problem is not the religion but the extremists, the fanatics.

THEY oppress
THEY order
THEY destroy
THEY want to conquier
THEM, fanatics, extremists

@Ponygirl @baarda

@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda They don't need religion, though as you pointed out earlier, some have used it as a prop. However it is elements of humanity who contravene the norms of morality