<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There is ample evidence that belief regardless of evidence or argument is harmful. There is also ample evidence that such "faith" regardless of evidence often leads to severe oppression and persecution of dissenters. This makes it quite obvious it is more destructive than any pursuit that does not have these faith based characteristics.<div><br></div><div>- samantha</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Post Futurist wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><em>>I don't consider religion merely futile, I think it's actively harmful<br>to humankind. I guess that<br>pretty succinctly highlights where we differ.<br>--John Clark</em></div>
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<div>No doubt religion is actively harmful. My point is you offer no evidence religion is more actively destructive than politics, entertainment, etc.</div>
<div>Because you cannot.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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