Tetly,
>in comparison to religion, science is manifestly real. apart from making people feel good about their existence, i can't think of much positive religion has done in comparison with the amount of human violence it has instigated.
Good science is exactly what you say. Violence is instigated out of our selfish human nature. False religion often reflects this image. False teachers in a true religion accomplish the same thing when no one is courageous enough to oppose them. The apostles to a man stood for the gospel and it all went downhill from there. The Holy Roman empire completed the apostacy and the Bible had already passed out of reach to the common man.
>corporations are also violent, in non-blood-shedding ways. but violent, none-the-less.
They are reflections of the moral guideposts of their own culture. Benevolence in business is often a dead thing because morality and ethics (not exclusively) have been removed by our present philosophy of moral relativism.
>i just think that out of all the labels, religion is the most absurd excuse for violence. this is born of my non-belief, obviously.
Obviously.
Rex