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Well, Higgs, I disagree on many of your points.

1. (Scientific knowledge and religion have nothing to do with each other at all.) You might argue that all knowledge is "subjective" because we use our senses to gain it, but each of my senses and senses of all the people around me corroborate that knowledge so it is quite reliable. You seem to be using the term "subjective" to find an excuse to equalize something we observe everyday with things we never do. If I fall from a 10 story building, I will most likely die. That's as close to objective, as you can get. Things like life after death and washing away sins after believing in Jesus have not been observed. Not by reliable sources anyway.
And by hampering science, just take a look at evolution denialists for example, that stems from creationism and creationism stems from theistic religion.

2. I don't see how things offensive to common sense can be an advantage. If you don't like that word, I can change it to individual morality: what ever I do has consequences on others and I take those into account. TO say that christianity and islam question the liberal views is totally backwards. It is not liberal views that have slavery condoned into their sacred texts, liberals don't kill gays, liberals don't protect their rapist coleagues in churches. If you had something else that qualifies as a radically different view of truth, by all means say it. Though, whatever you might have, can't be exclusive to religion. I'm not saying that all religious people do afwul things, but if they don't, they don't because they have their own morality and sense of good.

3. Love and charity are something people are capable of with or without religion.
"Whatever is good in Christianity belongs properly to Christianity". Please, do name something that is good and is good exclusively in christianity.

Religion by definition is a belief without the -objective- evidence. Of course, people find evidence in everything for almost any belief. If there was evidence for a perticular religion, then there wouldn't need to be a belief for it.
I just want the evidence to be true and a religious belief system is not a good way to ascertain what is truth and what isn't. That is all I am saying concerning evidence. Most often the evidence you speak of have supernatural tendencies or just cognitive bias, could you give a specific example that objectively holds?

Theistic religions like christianity and islam are the ones I am mostly criticizing, I don't know much about many other religions but if a supernatural aspect exists, then I think it's bad. Historically, it made sense before we knew much about the world that surrounds us. Today, it does not, it hampers scientific and objective knowledge.

As for the weight of pros, I would always argue that NOW, it is not needed:
1. Religions (like christianity or islam) for example have rules written in ancient scriptures. There are pretty weird rules there that no man with common sense would follow these days. People have to cherry pick what they like and are willing to ignore some of written text while at the same time defending other texts they value as sensible.
2. If we do approve changing the meaning of religious texts and updating them for modern times, then we don't need the religious texts anyway.

There definately are pros in religion, like charity, but then there's the cons… Plenty

A think it CAN be generalized in terms of believing something there is no evidence for. People are being encouraged not to think for themselves and not to solve their own problems (mostly goes to christians). Furthermore, in some cases it gives excuses to do what you wanted to do anyway and making others believe you're doing the right thing.

Any PROs that religion might have, like the feeling of unity, charity, finding peace in troubling times… None of that is exclusive to religion and is, in my opinion, severly outweighed by critical thinking, free of any dogma.

Higgs, I find secular humanism is as good as they come in philosophical terms. Mind you, I am not for banning any form of ideology or religion, but I will fight them if they inflict harm to anyone (including my own ;D )

I can't really find any substantial PROs for religion…

6 times once, I was jerking that whole day. I had nothing better to do i guess ;D

Vander from Chaosmen or Jessie Colter cause he's so Kinky  ::)

Oh, I gotta say Steve Perry  ;D

How did you like it overall?
And how do you compare it to other MCU movies? :cheesy2:

Bill Goldberg  mmmm