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# I'd disagree
I'd say religion provides a very useful form of social control. What better way to get a bunch of semi-civilised animals to behave than to convince them there's an all-powerful deity watching your every move and taking notes?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:35, archived)
# or they could just be normal enough
to behave and understand wrong from right without needing some "deity" as an excuse to behave??
(I helped save b3ta! FIEND, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:39, archived)
# You're wrong there, it's
right from wrong not wrong from right.
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:45, archived)
# *schisms*
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:47, archived)
# See that's where the weakness is right there.
Bloody splitters!
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:49, archived)
# But how about
When the rites are wrong?
(I helped save b3ta! eXOBeX, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:52, archived)
# Odford.co.uk If you're determined to pun your way out of this try this
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:25, archived)
# Phhhhht
Unlikely. We're talking about humans.

Much as I'd like to see humans calmly and rationally accept responsibility for their actions and be nice to each other, perhaps accept Humanism as a philosophy to live by, they won't. They get too excited and upset at even little things. Best just to scare the crap out of them to keep them in line.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:50, archived)
# ...and telling you to go and kill all the other people who don't believe in your deity,
it's not wrong, they're not really people anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:49, archived)
# That's not generally a part of the religion
That's in the "interpretation". The violence is usually thanks to some loon in charge who says it's ok to do bad things for the right reason.

The "main" religions of the planet tend to preach being nice to each other. Unfortunately, many adherents pay more attention to the leaders than the texts.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:54, archived)
# How's Edinburgh?
Awash with festival types?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:56, archived)
# Of course
Only been through town so far, not risked walking down the Mile. Looked pretty packed.

Wanna come over for any shows?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:58, archived)
# I should, I like a wander around at festival time.
I'll let you know if/when I make it over. Got any plans to see anything yourself?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:06, archived)
# Nothing planned except the fireworks
www.eif.co.uk/fireworks/

Everyone likes fireworks. Even our cat likes fireworks. At New Year she sat on my shoulder and watched them out the window.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:09, archived)
# Oooh, lovely!
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:21, archived)
# Please apply simultaneously for the posts of
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury, Head Mullah, Head Rabbi and anyone else who knows everything
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:58, archived)
# I'm already the leader of Tribbology
Wanna join? It's mostly free. Just requires the occasional tithe of chocolate. Pie is also acceptable.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:01, archived)
# Either that or I could return to my birthplace after
an absence of some decades and impose myself on your hospitality. (Or I could bring a flask and share with you a wee cuppa on Arthur's Seat)
(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:31, archived)
# Sounds a bit lesbian.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:36, archived)
# ...and telling you to chop bits off your chidren's genitals...
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 21:55, archived)
# Hmmmm, not sure that is explicitly asked for in any religious texts.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:05, archived)
#
www.religionfacts.com/judaism/cycle/circumcision.htm

Female, though, is pretty much just a barbaric tribal/cultural thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:11, archived)
# Sorry,
I had read the post by Meth as daughters for some reason.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sun 22 Aug 2010, 22:36, archived)