# My brief summary of religions... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606 "2018-06-07T14:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/1 "2018-06-07T14:16:24Z")
I was just killing some time on Twitter, when the following spilled out of my keyboard: “Religious strife will only end when all religions die out. Religions (considering our sinful nature) encourage us to divide, and hate, and try to destroy or subjugate others. Don’t listen to me, listen to thousands of years of history.” Not bad, eh? Also not revolutionary thinking, but hey, it’s early. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/2 "2018-06-07T14:37:57Z")
Not all religions, just those that aren’t mine, which is the correct one. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/3 "2018-06-07T14:46:23Z")
What about monks? They’re not bothering anybody. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/4 "2018-06-07T14:53:44Z")
Well, some of them aren’t bothering anybody. > **[Talduwe Somarama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talduwe_Somarama)** > > Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho, better known as Talduwe Somarama Thero (27 August 1915 – 6 July 1962), shot and killed S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), who served from 1956 until his assassination by Somarama in 1959. > Somarama Thero was born on 27 August 1915, to Iso Hamy and Ratugama Rallage Dieris Appuhamy.\[citation needed\] He was robed when he was 14 on 20 January 1929, and received his schooling at Talduwa Ihala School.\[citation needed\]... ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/5 "2018-06-07T15:14:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Religious strife will only end when all religions die out. To be replaced by strife over politics, resources, and revenge. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/6 "2018-06-07T15:21:33Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > To be replaced by strife over politics, resources, and revenge. And ethnicity, ethics, and baseball. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/7 "2018-06-07T15:21:57Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > “Religious strife will only end when all religions die out.” Soccer hooliganism will only end when all soccer/football dies out. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/8 "2018-06-07T15:23:08Z")
Imagine all the people living life in peace. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/9 "2018-06-07T15:52:06Z")
Religions don’t do those things; people who twist religions to justify their own prejudices, lust for power, or territorial rage do those things. Abolish religions, and those same people will operate the same way; they’ll simply use different rationalizations. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/10 "2018-06-07T15:54:58Z")
After we eliminate religion, I think we should go after nationalism next. That will be a big one so we should probably take a breather and eliminate sports team affiliations before we start on class and ideological divides. I think we should put off gender and race until we’re united on all these other things. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/11 "2018-06-07T16:08:41Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > What about monks? They’re not bothering anybody. Thelonious was cool. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/12 "2018-06-07T16:23:24Z")
😕 Some religions, e.g. Buddhism, preach tolerance and have doctrines totally antithetical to war or strife. Of course you can find examples of Buddhists who killed or instigated war, but did they do harm _because_ of their religion? ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/13 "2018-06-07T16:33:15Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > To be replaced by strife over politics, resources, and revenge. > > Regards, > Shodan “Replaced by” seems to me to implicate that we didn’t have those already! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/14 "2018-06-07T17:13:17Z")
Just remember that Humans seem to have a need to have enemies, in the absence of them, will create some. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/15 "2018-06-07T17:21:11Z")
> [@Ignotus](#): > > “Replaced by” seems to me to implicate that we didn’t have those already! If religion dropped out, they’d have to pick up the slack. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/16 "2018-06-07T17:25:34Z")
Not all religions believe we have a sinful nature. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/17 "2018-06-07T17:41:05Z")
It’s not religions that are the problem. **People** are the problem. And they’re also the only solution. At least the only one that doesn’t involve species extinction. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/18 "2018-06-07T18:07:47Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > It’s not religions that are the problem. **People** are the problem. > > And they’re also the only solution. > > At least the only one that doesn’t involve species extinction. A surprisingly large percentage of societal problems can be solved by eliminating the species that the society’s members are part of. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/19 "2018-06-07T20:33:24Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > What about monks? They’re not bothering anybody. Does the name Rasputin ring a bell? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606/20 "2018-06-07T20:38:34Z")
You can keep religion so long as you get rid of those who claim they have the exclusive truth, and feel everyone else had better line up. Ancient religions with tribal gods (even Greek and Roman ones) were a lot more tolerant than Christianity and Islam. Imagine how much better the world would be if the religions who think SSM is an affront to their god don’t have problems when those not in their religion do it. It is possible. Orthodox Jews don’t run around bombing bacon factories after all. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brief-summary-of-religions/815606.md?page=2)