D.J. D.J. said:
Until religion makes ITSELF right, I will continue to voice my outrage at them.
Its like I said, religion didn't do anything wrong and is meant to change people for the better.
As long as rights and lives are abused in the name of God, I will complain.
Fair enough but complain about the people responsible for making peoples lives hell not their scapegoat.
I will say this much, the media and general world view of "Religion" is seen as bad because that "bad stuff" is what catches the worlds attention, i.e., priest molesting boys, the crusades, the inquistions, etc. When we read about the "Faith" having a bad history, we're really reading about the "religion" being bad.
Faith and religion are two different things. Faith is hope and belief in the goodness or trustworthiness, of a person, concept or entity. Religion is a cultural system that establishes humanity to spirituality and moral values.
In lamen terms, faith is you, me and everyone elses private and personal belief in something or someone. Religion is a system of rules that are written to govern over your life "to make you better". To say faith is a Fail is not true. But religion is however, an Epic Fail.