AdamW
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Hey, it IS only religion...name one thing that religion delves that has any meaning besides faith, which is so vague it shouldn't have any real meaning. ALthough I do think it should exist.
Historically, religion (and more specifically theology) was the dominant force of advanced pure thinking for rather over half a millennium before being, to some extent, replaced in comparatively recent times by secular philosophy. Religion and religious thought have provided, besides a beginning to a stable and fairly peaceful western society, some of the most fundamental advances in mankind's understanding of the world, not only in Europe and America but around the world. Personally i'm an atheist, and I believe some forms of organised religion can be extremely damaging to society, but some of the blinkered, ignorant and prejudiced views given by gamers in retaliation to Christian critics are every bit as bad as the criticisms were in the first place. I've just as many interesting, compassionate, intelligent and nice Christians as I have prejudiced and bigoted ones. Generalisations only contribute to the mutual animosity and don't help anyone at all, so please quit making them.
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