Religion Is The Worst Enemy Of Mankind

[ItsjustMe]

[samsingh]

1. that and conservatism

[Chainfire]

4. It could all be combined under the single title of ignorance.

They just don't know any better and they have been conditioned to believe everything that they are told by authority figures.
In a way, I envy them, for they don't have to be held responsible for things that go wrong.

[Big Blue Marble]

2. Mankind is the worst enemy of mankind.

with or without religion.

[nycbos]

3. Christopher Hitchens said Religion is a celestial North Korea

Here is another great one

[Auggie]

5. One sociologist I've read says religion has been crucial in the development of society

Faith promoted, for better or worst, group interaction between humans. Thousands of years ago.

My take? It worked, up to a point. Then a few wise guys discovered how emotion, tribalism, and greed could be used to turn groups against each other while promoting their own ascension to power and leadership roles.

[old as dirt]

6. This meme forgot the Catholics

Remember, it was the Catholics who fought the Wars for Catholicism. The Wars against slavery.

"esclavos en resistencia, negros realistas"

"slaves in resistance, Black royalists"

'If I can't dance, then I don't want to be in your revolution" - Emma Goldman

[old as dirt]

7. How did President Obama become the enemy of the people?

You just have a different religion, that's all.

[4Q2u2]

8. Men

"Men will never be free until the last King is strangle with the Entrails of the last Priest."

atheist-priest Jean Meslier quoting Common Frenchman.

[old as dirt]

9. A Frenchman?

"Men will never be free until the last King is strangle with the Entrails of the last Priest."

atheist-priest Jean Meslier quoting Common Frenchman.

Frenchmen are the enemy of the people!

Introduction

Reform, revolution, and royalism in the northern Andes

New Granada and Popayán (1780-1825)

In the year 1810, in the midst of the Spanish monarchy's deepest crisis of sovereignty that took place during Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, the slave- and mine-owning elites across New Granada's southwestern province of Popayán (in present day Colombia) formed the first I surgent juntas, rejecting Spanish sovereignty.

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In a remarkable moment in the history of slavery, the representatives of the Spanish king mobilized slaves against slave owners, and slaves allied with and defended the crown, which had historically promoted slavery.

(pages 1-2)

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Slave-Royalists-Age-Revolution/dp/1107084148

Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825