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People use religion as a means to their own ends sometimes - and others suffer because of it.
We have to wonder why: people who have built their world view strongly on faith have already suspended logic and evidence for whatever they think about the world. It's precisely these people who can be told anything because religious claims are rarely if ever verifiable.
For example, it's rather easy to destroy someone's personality and psychology and replace it with your own ideas about heaven, terrorism and suicide-bombing - it happens all the time in some countries.
Similarly, children around the world are also told what to believe at a young age from their parents. That just makes the beliefs arbitrary, doesn't it? You just end up believing what the people around you believe.
We have to wonder why: people who have built their world view strongly on faith have already suspended logic and evidence for whatever they think about the world. It's precisely these people who can be told anything because religious claims are rarely if ever verifiable.
For example, it's rather easy to destroy someone's personality and psychology and replace it with your own ideas about heaven, terrorism and suicide-bombing - it happens all the time in some countries.
Similarly, children around the world are also told what to believe at a young age from their parents. That just makes the beliefs arbitrary, doesn't it? You just end up believing what the people around you believe.
