but all of those bigots all that hatred all that stuff exists regardless of religion....if you remove religion from this world all that stuff would still be there.
If you remove the religion something else...philosophy, some sort of pshycology, perhaps polotics...would become the justification for those acts.
When I find that the framework of a religion, philosophy or other theory is damanging me and doesn't seem to reflect my true beliefs or hold tre in the world i step away from it.
During my periods of sobriety I find that i can better see what seems to me to be true and not true. During my periods of drinking, i manage to completly bungle things and run willy nilly from one belief system to another clinging for dear life for something to make since of things
things don't always make since...i don't get to understand everything...