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Ezequiel 2022-03-22 09:02:10
Personally, I think this is a very good documentary, looking at the problems of today's world through religious issues. Religion has always been a means for rulers to enslave the people. Let's look at today's world, the different beliefs of the East and the West, Muslims and Judaism. Conflicts, on the surface, appear to be due to people's different beliefs, but actually the rulers representing their own religions use the guise of religion to deceive the people, and use them as tools for their own political propaganda, nothing for freedom, in the name of God. People support, to realize their own political ambitions, and to wage war with religious conflicts, so I think this film is very good, in fact, people's own thinking is important, what is the end of the day, the prophet, the last judgment, I am afraid it is those radicals It has found a perfect excuse for starting a war! And the blind faith and support of some people have further enabled those so-called politicians to implement rule and win votes. From my point of view, religion is basically a conspiracy. He first discussed religion in this film. All kinds of problems are absurd, but there are still many people who will believe it. People believe in different religions, and there will be different contradictions. If the contradictions are deep, wars may break out, such as the issue between Israel and some Arabs. Religion brings insecurity, and that rulers often use religion to achieve their political goals. Today’s society is the age of nuclear weapons. If there is war, is it the final judgment that religious fanatics call? People can imagine Think, whether it is for peace or war. In fact, it is human beings who decide the final judgment!! Isn't it said that there will be a day of destruction of the earth, if there is really an ice age in 1 million years or 5 million years, there is no way, but May human beings not bring the end of the world early. Know that the total number of nuclear weapons possessed by countries in the world is enough to destroy the earth several times!!
Extended Reading
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Bill Maher: [Extra] What about when innocent people get killed during a "defensive action"?
Michael Bray: I'm for that. Yeah. It's collateral damage.
Bill Maher: But it's acceptable?
Michael Bray: We've got to consider what the real issue is here and what the cost is and the risk.
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Bill Maher: [Extra] This is the Anne Frank house, when you see it you really understand how true that phrase "The banality of evil" really is. One of the common arguments in defence of religion is that Hitler wasn't religious and neither was Stalin or Mao and they were bad so religion is good. But like religion itself it's an argument that really depends a lot on not thinking too deeply. For one Hitler himself didn't eliminate anyone personally he had a lot of footsoldiers most of whom were good Christians and they pushed people into the ovens. Religion has done a bad job of stepping up and preventing violence-prone bullies from doing their thing. If anything it usually justifies acts of madness. And 20th Century Fascism and Communism while not strictly religions as we've come to think of religion, really were religions. They were state religions. Hitler was seen as infallable and Godlike. Hirohito was absolutely a God on Earth to the Japanese people. We shouldn't get too hung up on the word religion. The bottom line is whether people think and act rationally or not and whenever they organise their lives around something that could best be described as groundlessness bad things happen. Even if the central story seems harmless like there's a God who loves you so much that he had his only Son whacked so that you could keep on sinning. Still, doesn't matter, once reality has left the building, once it's up there in the ether then anything can be extrapolated or tacked on by Preachers and Priesthoods and delusionals and power-hungry pricks. It's not that big a step from "your God is the only God and he loves you very much" to "you really should get out there and start killing for him" Whenever people believe in something utterly groundless because they were told it by a charismatic preacher and Hitler was nothing if not that, all bets are off. Nazism was a religion, a religion based on the insane fiction that Jews were subhuman vermin who did not deserve to live, but people and people not from a primitive society believed it because A they liked the preacher, B the other sheep around them were buying into it even though it was crazy and C it was inextricably tied to their view of a glorious Valhalla-like future. A, B, C. Religion.