Ciara's Discussion #2

I thoroughly enjoyed today's conversation because, as you can see, I have strong views about religion and it's role in the past, present, and future. Yes: I do understand that religion was necessary at some point in our past to bring man into unthreatening, productive contact with one another; however, this time has passed, and as Shap mentioned, religion has become an alibi for wars and mass murders across the globe. Its progression over history resembles something of a bell curve: it fulfilled it's original intention, peaked, and over time it has returned to catalyze the issues it was created to prevent, bringing us into an even deeper shit hole than the one in which we started. I believe that religion emits a deep fog of ignorance in our minds that allows us to explain the unexplainable and wrongly purge us of our wrongdoings, also known as sins. 

I also enjoyed our conversation (and heated af debate) about the selfishness of mankind, and to what extents we would go with our selfishness. Is it irrational to think that many people would kill 50,000 people over their one family member? Or does this represent the mind of a human in its most simple, impulsive form?