So lets say someone committed a crime.....this person was:

a)Born in South Africa but arrived in Australia when he was 2 years old.
b) Mixed background of English / Thai
c) Catholic
d) Used to be Heterosexual but became Homosexual

Who should he represent?

The fact that a religion is referenced in their tribe name some what brings religion into it.

argument? i havent even entered an argument. what are you on about?

you sound like a cockney the manner in which you speak
WTF are you talking about?

He is an Islamic state fighter, Islam I'm pretty sure is a religion, so how is religion not involved in this conflict?

i was responding to the comment about catholics

Yes, it's involved. However animals will always be animals. Religion is only a vessel for this sort of shit.

Yeah, I'll bite...

Fuck off :lol:

Religion unifies the animals. I'm not sure they would have the same passion if they were just a group of random nut jobs.

any institution will do that, whether it be religion, football clubs, political parties, atheist meet ups, socialist groups or a-league franchises

To some extent yes, but I'd never cut off someone's head in the name of Brisbane Roar and use my allegiance to them as justification for my actions.

hmm Mob mentality perhaps?
Green Street Hooligans?:lol:

its just a matter of time

Groups magnify emotions... That's simple stuff.

Active support, school social groups... That's very basic social analysis. Blaming religion for bringing people together is silly. Unfortunately within the extremities of organised religions, there are crazies who are unstable but find 'stability' in religion but end up meeting other psychos.

Religion magnifies it, they believe they're doing god's work, it's sacred to them. There is no higher power or purpose.

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your hatred for religion could be described as fanatical in itself

Yeah, nah. Can't imagine any atheist ever strapping on a suicide vest and blowing himself and 2 dozens innocents into a million pieces.

Only blind faith and a strident belief in the afterlife could convince these morons to commit these acts.

Religious conviction or beliefs may not be wholly to blame but it's a big slice of the blue pie chart.

That's not religion, that's just a mob mentality. Replace God with Bully or Capo and you have a high school bully gang or an active support...

Yes religion is on a bigger scale, but it's the same psychological effect.

atheists are the biggest killers in history

Lies. Faith is the belief in something without the benefit of evidence.

Religious dickheads are illogical fools who act on "faith" rather than rationality which has caused nothing but grief to the world for centuries.

Go on then, wheel out Stalin and Hitler.

You don't have a fucking clue do you?

Ever heard of an atheist strapping on a suicide vest?

Wanker.

Not that you'll care or even read this but others might be interested. http://www.examiner.com/article/refuting-the-myth-that-hitler-stalin-and-pol-pot-were-atheists-1

abortion

Belief in a higher power and sacred devotion to this power certainly sounds like religion to me.

irony considering you believe in man made climate change based on your faith in the opinion of some scientists who havent actually proven anything

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Goose.

furthermore Mao outdoes all of them

Lol nice try. Faith is part of religion, not all of it. People who think that the abrahamic religions can survive without a shred of evidence are simply dense and the illogical ones in the situation.

Also, you should hang your head in shame saying that religion has caused nothing but grief. That's simply uneducated and really shows that you shouldn't be engaged with on the matter.

It's only "faith" in your mind. In mine it's determined on the balance of evidence.

as usual you resort to mindless personal insults when the weakness of your position is exposed for all to see