Facts vs Feelings




Information From http://carm.org/religion-cause-war

What people need to do is divorce themselves from false "truisms" that they happily embrace to support their opinions/feelings. There is tons of information out there to access and research, and any conclusions should come from facts and not feelings. Sentimentality doesn't determine what's true or not, either. Objectivity all around.

When it comes to study, learn what you're arguing for and what you're arguing against.

So, yes, religion does cause battles and war and genocide – but less than 7%. Dogma in general causes those things, and it doesn't have to be religious dogma; just look at Stalin and Hitler. According to the Bible, the gospel (what Jesus did for murders and all kinds of sinners) causes less violence in the world not more; that's in terms of changing people and making them sin less – the persecutors who aren't changed are gonna ramp up the violence toward believers.

Hitler was a syncretist who imprisoned gospel-preaching pastors and had not the slightest problem with racial extermination.

So try to find a real Christian. See how they're like and find out why. Their profession should be considered "likely true" based on their theology, and it is because of their theology that they are peculiar – that they are the way they are.

[Read the posts above and below to learn what the gospel is – to study that theology.]

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Another edit/addition:
This illustration popped in my mind today regarding the objection "People have Murdered in the name of God!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_69VqyTIgzA)

Ronald Reagan was shot in the name of Jodie Foster.
Hinckley is the one who sent him to the hospital – a deranged man wanting to get her attention.
Did she call for that attempted murder? No.
Was she in cahoots with Hinckley? No.
Were they even involved with each other in any way? No.

P.S. Here's a lecture on violence in the Bible and Church History: Part 1 - Part 2
A letter to Dr. James White from a fair deist or atheist: http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php/2008/10/25/you-never-know-who-is-listening-and-watching/
A lecture on not mixing opposing worldviews: here  
And a lecture on defining tolerance rightly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyTa5r4GG4M&list=PL5D2071851931F4FF