Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
I know what you mean but it's ironic that we consider the church of part of 'our' culture (historically true, I grant you) when it's just a different schism of Abrahamism, which came from the Middle East in the first place. Christianity just happens to be the version foisted upon us by invading armies and various rulers. Religion is all about indoctrination, gullibility, division and seeing others as different and not worthy of one's own version of heaven/paradise/the afterlife. It's about time that the primitive concept of deities were replaced by altruism and a concern for our fellow man. Sadly, we all know that it isn't going to happen soon though - as the biggest conflicts seem to be between schisms of just one branch of religion i.e. Abrahamism (in the forms of Judaism, Sunni, Shia, Christianity etc.)