People say that it is taboo to talk about/argue about religion, if this is true we apologize for any who may be offended.
What is the big deal about religion? One day I just stopped and thought about it. The things I thought about were where it came from and what it was for. For now let us forget about the first thought and go straight to the second one. What is religion for? I believe that religion is simply a tool used to pacify the masses. In this context I believe that Christianity was used as a tool to colonize the Philippines. Colonizing a whole archipelago is not a easy thing to do, what better tool is there to use than religion? Some people would say brute force, but that would involve quite a bit of hassle. Religion could be used not only to pacify the people being colonized but also as a somewhat leash on the people. I say this because people would do almost anything for something that they truly believe in. For example a small city in the middle east holds a major significance for three major religions, and what has it gained from this significance? A few crusades in which a lot of people lost their lives, and a couple of burned down temples never to be rebuilt.
The reason for my view on religion is how religion can become somewhat hippocratic. What I mean is a certain religion preaches about loving your neighbor as you love thyself, but why is it the same religion tells its followers to go and purge a city of those who don't believe in the same thing. Another example for this hypocrisy is how the Spanish friars treated the native Filipinos with a certain disgust during the colonial time of the Philippines.
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