philoreaderguy wrote:Re: Is religion responsible for most murder?
I've heard it said that more people have been killed in the name of god than for any other reason. Is that true? Is religion responsible for most murder?

Ape: Hatred for any word person or thing is the Spirit of Murder resposnsible for all murder, starting with the murder of Love, by any person in any religon or in any religion of no religion.
Love or the Life of Love is what makes life or the life of Life worth living. People don't want to live is a world without Love, as the song says.
So any religionist or irreligionist who has Hate in their hearts for any opposite word or enemy-person is taking away the Life of Love which is the prop or stay of Life, or so is also taking away the Life of Life that is propped up by and is made worth living by the Life of Love.
Example:
Both those in any religion who hate any other religion or hate any non-religion, and those in no religion who hate the haters of any religion are all guilty of the mens rea of murder.

[quote="boagie"]Religion is a vehicle of irrationality, holding anything other than the sanctity of human life as sacred is about the most dangerous activity one can get into.
Ape:
Hi Boagie!
So are you saying that it is your religion or belief that religion is a vehicle of irrationality?
Doesn't that mean that your belief or religion is also irrational?
Can there be rationality without irrationality?
And so doesn't that mean that you mean something else by irrationality such as the Irrationaity of Bias against the irrational or vs. the other rationals or vs. different rationales?
What about the rationality and irrationality of irrational numbers?
Boagie:
Someone believes in a fairytale, not your fairytale of course, but they believe it is the only true fairytale, and those whom do not believe in it are evil enemies of god, how f-ing crazy is that.
Ape:
So does that mean that you believe that your fairytale is the only fairytale or is not the only fairytale?
And do you mean that you believe that those who do not believe in your fairytale are good friends or good enemies or evil friends?
Boagie:
In my book it amounts to mental illness,
Ape:
What amounts to mental illness: actual neurological illness or an ill or sick attitude of mind accompanied by an otherwise healthy mind?
Is mental illness
taking as enemies or opposers people who don't believe as you do and oppose what you believe in, or
taking as friends people who don't believe as you do and oppose what you believe in?
Have you ever heard of of someone being their own best friend and their own worse enemy?
Can someone be both friend and enemy, well and ill, rational and irrational at the same time?
So could it that you mean something else by by good friend or evil enemy, by mental illness or mental wellness?
Boagie: and yes people have been killing other people for eons for having the wrong theology.
Ape: So do you believe that those who do not have your theology are right or wrong, are rational or are irrational, are good or evil, friend or enemy?

Nick_A wrote:...
God was not responsible; it was the female behind.

Doesn't this subject merit your further investigation, Sir Nick, er, Nick, sir?
I humbly redirect your rapt attention to the distinct possibility that it might have been the female before! All precedential investigatory expeditions have seen this as the best evidence.