What religion is the most harmful?

[zero-who]

Either in terms of harm to the individual, society at large, or both.

I am inclined to say Islam, given that it inherently fucks over 50% of its population and has probably bred more terrorists per capita than every other religion on this list combined.

What do you think, Kiwi Farms? Discuss.

 

[Toolbox]

Atheism/nihilism/science worship with a little bit of marxism. Corporate fanboyism or consumer culture has basically become it's own religion outright at this point which does similar damage.

I would have agreed with you on Islam years ago but it is clear that there are more pressing targets, if you are focusing solely on what is having the most negative impact on western culture.

 

[Audit]

I'm going to have to approach this question on a per capita basis. It's clearly scientology. Good luck finding any scientologist that isn't completely batshit insane.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

There are totally harmful cults and religions out there, but those typically are limited to mainly its membership (and should be investigated for human rights violations wherever applicable) unless they encourage zealot members to harm others for "the greater good" or just to send a message. In the case of science worship, this is especially harmful to scientific progress because it means you're unable to challenge everything (especially the corporations backing them up), and the "worshipers" just blindly follow what they're fed through headlines and rabidly attack those who question "the Science". This forsakes everything that science is all about: hypothesizing and then testing that hypothesis again and again and again and again, weighing out the successes and failures while also taking into consideration other hypotheses that're brought to the discussion, all for the sake of improving human livelihood and better understanding how the universe operates.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Black Lives Matter

 

[DumbDude42]

of the major religions? i'd say that the modern pozzed strains of christianity, reddit atheist science worship, and secular/reform judaism are all equally harmful because they all support and enable the kind of self-destructive leftism that drives societies into ruin.

of the minor religions and cults? probably scientology, because they're all batshit crazy lunatics who unironically fell for a meme cult that was created as a social experiment by a scifi author, who is probably still laughing at all the retards he fooled from beyond the grave.

 

[Red Hood]

The modern religion of self-worship.

 

[Ser Prize]

There are totally harmful cults and religions out there, but those typically are limited to mainly its membership (and should be investigated for human rights violations wherever applicable) unless they encourage zealot members to harm others for "the greater good" or just to send a message. In the case of science worship, this is especially harmful to scientific progress because it means you're unable to challenge everything (especially the corporations backing them up), and the "worshipers" just blindly follow what they're fed through headlines and rabidly attack those who question "the Science". This forsakes everything that science is all about: hypothesizing and then testing that hypothesis again and again and again and again, weighing out the successes and failures while also taking into consideration other hypotheses that're brought to the discussion, all for the sake of improving human livelihood and better understanding how the universe operates.

Seconding this, the Science(TM) cult is by far the worst because of how it degrades the very principle of what it worships. It's not based on science, it's based on attributing priesthood to scientists and following everything they say as scripture.

IMO I'm also not sure why Quiverfull is even an option. Isn't that just a sect of protestants that believes in having lots of kids?

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

Troonism

 

[CowPox]

Judaism because the other two prominent monotheisms were spawned from it.

 

[Lookie-lou]

Currently I would say in widely accepted religions, Islam. And I mean that in the sense that they've been purging each other over ideological/political sectarian sperging from the start. Something about Islam that just makes people go into kill mode faster than most.

It took a few centuries for Judaism and Christianity to get past the arguing but just going home to seethe it off stage.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Hinduism. Third largest religion, can't make new shit or even make us laugh like Muslims do

 

[Beautiful Border]

I'd say Islam, mostly because of how anti-art it is. Muslim countries tend to have a very impoverished culture as pretty much everything except calligraphy and abstract geometric patterns are prohibited.

 

[Narutard]

Something about Islam that just makes people go into kill mode faster than most.

Someone one 4chan called the Quran Muhammad’s autistic ramblings. Makes sense they’re all buttmad 24/7 if Islam is just that.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

I'm not sure if any one religion is inherently more harmful than any other. I think what makes a religion harmful is when it encourages fanaticism in it's adherents, and closes them off to better ideas. All belief systems have the potential to do this, and although some clearly have worse track records than others, there often isn't a lot of consistency if you try to compare one to another over time.

Personally, I'm not a fan of religion as a general concept, so I suppose in a sense I'm of the view that any degree of religiosity is potentially harmful, although it's not a position which I think can be clearly argued in all cases.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Islam. Hands down, and feet too.
When an atheist grows up out of his mom's basement and starts going to Church, the other atheists won't throw acid on him, burn his house down or chop his head off.

I'm not sure if any one religion is inherently more harmful than any other.

Then I'm sorry to say, but you're extremely ill informed about religion for lack of a more blunt term.

 

[Lookie-lou]

Someone one 4chan called the Quran Muhammad’s autistic ramblings. Makes sense they’re all buttmad 24/7 if Islam is just that.

that was a very good read, thanks mate. I was 60% versed in all that BS.. but reading a true autist who delved into the code of early islam was pure kino.

 

[theshitposter]

Judaism because the other two prominent monotheisms were spawned from it.

Like judaism is the only religion with sects

Hinduism. Third largest religion, can't make new shit or even make us laugh like Muslims do

What do you mean by can't make new shit? You can go out and literally start your own cult with bullshit preachings & interpretation

I'd say Islam, mostly because of how anti-art it is. Muslim countries tend to have a very impoverished culture as pretty much everything except calligraphy and abstract geometric patterns are prohibited.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

 

[Beautiful Border]

Like judaism is the only religion with sects

What do you mean by can't make new shit? You can go out and literally start your own cult with bullshit preachings & interpretation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

I'm aware of the Islamic golden age, but it doesn't really refute what I said.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Then I'm sorry to say, but you're extremely ill informed about religion for lack of a more blunt term.

The key word in my statement was "inherently". There are obviously some religions which are generally a lot worse than others, but within these religions, there is invariably a great degree of diversity with respect to how a particular adherent chooses to practice their religion, which suggests that it is possible to isolate the problems I identified from the religious identity itself.

Admittedly, there are specific circumstances where this might be very difficult. I can't imagine it would be very easy to encourage Jews to abandon circumcision, for example.