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£100, do you believe that religion has been a purely positive thing throughout the existence of mankind? Even the "peace-loving" (compared to some other religions) Christianity has been opposing scientific progress and knowledge for many centuries throughout the history. Executing (burning) the scientists who were bold enough to make their revolutionary findings public is just one example.
You might claim that religion was just a pretext for the powerful to spread their ideas and desires, just like you claimed was the case with some wars. But sometimes, when you don't have a strong enough pretext that can manage the mindless masses (and religion is the perfect instrument for that), some awful things might have been avoided throughout the history, including the wars, terrorist attacks, discrimination, etc.
So my point is that, while there might be some positive aspects to religions, they have this secret dark side to them, that many people don't realize. To most of us (including you I believe) who are considered a sexual minority, religion and specifically bible has been a very negative thing. It might be the perverse interpretation given to some of the texts in "holy" books by certain people, but if these "holy" texts weren't written, it would have been much harder to come up with these perverse interpretations.
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