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I have been black in this country 43 years and I cannot figure out why you would choose to affiliate with a racist orginization like mormons
I hate salt lake city because everytime I fly through there you can feel the weirdness and bigotry hell I rather be in the south at least there I know?
What is the allure, they don’t like you or care about you…so why?

I get a strong sense that most people in this section are dogmatists, automatically and mindlessly agreeing with everything their party or ideology says, with conclusions coming first and rationalization and debate being afterthoughts.
I’m curious how many of us can identify a major area of disagreement with our stated affiliated party or other political labels. Any conservatives support abortion rights, or gay rights? Any liberals in opposition to affirmative action, or back a flat tax? How many of us here aren’t dogmatists? 🙂
(For my own part, I consider myself left-leaning, and a staunch Democrat. Off the top of my head, I oppose the organics movement, I consider myself an environmentalist but reject conservationalism as a solution, I think public education could strongly benefit from decentralization, competition and vouchers, and I regard affirmative action as institutionalized bigotry.)

Religion does not control people, people control people. People have done horrible things, not religion.
If you really want an example of oppression look to one name:
Pol Pot.
Who killed more in his own small country in the name of preserving atheism than died in either of those 2 secularly driven conflicts.
But let’s just look at the easy stuff: Human rights are more widely practiced in every country where religion (Christianity, Islam, etc) has spread. Almost every instance of slavery being brought to an end was done by religious activists.
Also, religion has given us culture, tradition, forms of art and music. Also, countless numbers of charities give money to less fortunate and organize institutions (St. Jude’s Hospital for example). People who affiliate themselves with some religions volunteer their time, some even leaving their home countries to help others. Is it 100% a good thing? No. has it caused issues like war or bigotry? Yes, but so have politics and government.
Many people will use whatever vehicle they can to serve their purpose. Religion is often used as this vehicle.
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, remember this folks.