CMV:Religious people should be persecuted in any way possible.

1) *it's impossible:** even if all your point were right (they aren't) you have to realise that ~80% of the world has some kind of religious faith at the moment. And while the number is decreasing in western societies, it's growing in the rest of the world. I think you'll understand that 20% of the world cannot go on a 'crusade' against 80% of the world to stop them to believe. * 2) It's impossible (part 2): even if we forget point 1, you have to understand that putting the religion out of a man can be almost impossible. When authoritarian regimes tried to ban religion in the past, religious people just started to hide, they didn't quit their faith even it would have been a lot more easier. * 3) You vastly over-estimate the danger of religion: yes they are thousands of people dying because of religious extremism each year in the world and you can say it's not a good thing but when comparing those numbers to the number of people who dies/died in regular war, or because of famine/lack of health or the the number of people who dies in car crash each, it shouldn't be the number 1 preoccupation of the world. * 4) You vastly under-estimate the positive aspect of religion: I could write tons of good things that religion brings to the world but since you dismissed the argument I don't think it will change your mind so I won't expand * 5) Religion is human made You say that no one is born religious but at the same time you can look at human history and see that almost all civilizations created their own Gods. Religion isn't something from another world that was forced onto humanity: it's something for the best and the worst that was created by men because they felt they need it. * 6) Persecution is wrong

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