Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.225.41-20160709120906/@comment-23426630-20170116132512

First and for most RELIGION IS NOT WAR! In every religion it is forbidden to act as destructive force for everyone, but it is true that nearly every religion -no matter how peacefull they are in the base, for rxample Islam means peace- can be used for destructive causes. You can say then why use this kind of tricky and dangerous tool for shaping humanity? the answer lies within the bravery of humanity to ascend from its limits.

Faith in divine without aid of others -like within an organised religion- can lead people to anywhere beyond comprehention of an average mind. However this can lead a lot of contradiction and personal egoistic fights between people. These fights will prevent humans to ascend into a bigger form known as society expecially whilst the natural sources are limited. Look and see the best and most beautiful architectural monuments like Taj Mahal, Angor Wat, Notradam, Temple of Apollon etc. nearly everyone of them builded by highly religious communities. Were they not creative? For example did you know the man known as the father of modern mathematics and algoritm al-Khwārizmī  discovered diameter of the world whilst trying to determine exact time of late afternoon prayers for Muslims in 800ies (with help of self invented better form of the miter). Also don't think that people of Europe emerged from dark ages without the help of religion. Feudaliity based on noble ideas that brought by Christianity.

You can say that organised religion is a destructive force when you have everything but ıf you had known what was emptiness you would have thought otherwise. For example without the power of Islam we can't even imagine an Arabic  civilisation in the deserts of middle East. Also see Jews, and how they resisted holocust and the attacks of Arabs. Also what made them into a force to reckon with was Jewish beliefs while they were squirming the grasp of corrupted feudal lords in Europe (see the merchant of Venice and injustice used against Jews).

So I say once more faith is power for personal use and organised religion is power for society, the leaders of society either use these powers to be creative or destructive and that is the basic manivestation of human freedom because without the capacity to be evil merits and values of being good is meaningless (That is why existancialist hate God, they simply wanted God to rid them from freedom which gives them power to be evil).

Also tell me was religion the cause of USA to nuking Japan? Or was cause of usage of phosphorus bombs used in Poland and German at the end of WWII by allies? Did England and France made "sykes picot" because of pure religious interest (which was the real reason of current middle east mess)?

People likes being violent as much as being benevolent, searching for a reason like religion is useless. The reason for

People today sees only the worst sides of people with religious roots. However personal faith (deism, theism etc.) and religion by itself are not destructive phenomenons.

Last canonical divergence about Emperor's stance in the matter of Imperial Truth is just consequance of media's propaganda.

I am sure the situation of the world seems a mess but it originates from extremism of humanity on any matter, religious extremism is only a piece of it, not the sole cause.