bluejeangirl76 wrote:conversationpc wrote:bluejeangirl76 wrote:iLex wrote: as said before ...religion has no "positive" influence on morality whatsoever.
No, it doesn't. Condoning discrimination and hypocrisy, allowing church leaders to break the law and face little or no repurcussions and teaching inequality is certainly not positive.
Sure it does...MOST churches boot their pastors who break the law but you never hear about it in the press. The only time you hear about them are when the pastors actually break the law and when they are not punished by their churches.
Not speaking for all cases, but in many, they don't boot them. They send them off to a smaller parish in another city, usually a smaller city a couple hundred miles away. That's what they did to the pee-pee toucher they found in the parish I grew up in. They helped him hide. I've heard this isn't exactly uncommon, either, that's what I mean by condoning it.
That is not in all faiths. You are lumping all faiths together and saying all are the same. No, sin is not condoned, nor hid away in all religions. I am sorry your church you grew up in did such a sorry thing. But I ask you did Jesus say hide child molesters, and condone sinful behavior? True religion as it is written in the bible, would produce good parents, spouses, employees, employers, and citizens. People that are living by these principles would never steal, cheat or lie. Now are we also dealing with human error? Yes! But it isn't the teachings of the Bible that are flawed, just people who choose to ignore what it teaches and let sin dictate their lives. By choosing to do evil things in the name of God, there is a punishment that awaits these people.
