'are the aboriginals less evolved than the British?
runner,
Please clarify, then or now & which country?'

Individual

you would need to have checked out British museums to see skulls of aboriginals and Africans as 'proof' of the missing link. One of my aboriginal friends actually went to London to pick one of them up a number of years ago.

Then more fairytales such as the fraudulent Piltdown man was put into school text books. The lie was told often enough for the gullible to believe. Oh well ignore the plain truth you are bound to be handed over to a corrupt mind. Evolutionist have certainly be shown this to be true. Bit like the gw alarmist. Tell the lie often enough but keep changing the 'facts'. Nothing new under the sun as Solomon said.

It is hard to keep up with the number of revisions and lies that need to cover over the previous ones. I suppose thats

runner,
no missing links around here only shackle-pins.

Yuyutsu
It is a different thing altogether. Let us not argue for the sake argument. Let us contribute to remove confusions.

Many people today no longer believe deeply in
traditional religion, but many haven't found a
satisfying substitute. Lacking commitment
to a shared belief system some tend to pursue
their private interests without regard for their
fellows. Therein lies the problem.

Whatever their source the rituals enacted in any
religion enhance the solidarity of the community
as well as its faith. The rituals (like Baptism,
bar mitzvah, weddings, Sabbath services, Christmas
mass, and funerals) serve to bring people together,
to remind them of their common group membership,
to reaffirm their traditional values, to maintain
prohibitions and taboos, to offer comfort in times
of crisis, and in general, to help transmit the
cultural heritage from one generation to the next.

For many years it was widely felt that as science
progressively provided rational explanations for the
mysteries of the universe, religion would have less
and less of a role to play and would eventually
disappear as nothing more than superstition.

But there are still gaps in our understanding that
science cannot fill. On the meaning and purpose of
life and the nature of morality.

I've written on this subject previously that few
people of modern societies would utterly deny the
possibility of some higher power in the universe,
some supernatural, transcendental realm that lies
beyond the boundaries of ordinary experience, and in
this fundamental sense religion is probably here to
stay.

To Ezhil.

I get that you think that religions are the roots of all the evil in the world. I've heard this philosophy several times, phrased differently, or with a different spin on it or a different tone applied to it. But it is in error.

You probabley won't believe me on this, but God is real. He is not a superstition. If you can, understand this principle first. If God is real then He is not a superstition. The next questions seek answers for is who or what God is; and if any religions (or at least their texts and prophets) come from God.

The error in the philosophy that all religions are the source of the evil in the world is wrong for three reasons. The first I already addressed, that God is real. The second is that it's in error because it doesn't recoginize the differences within the religions of the world, and so it is not of value to place crimes or wrongs one religion does as a charge against another religion. With that in mind, if God uses any one religion (or multiple religions) to contact mankind, then the distinguishing aspects between the religions is a worth while point. Which ones are from God and which ones don't line up and say what isn't from God.

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The third reason for this error is just as important as the other two. That there is evil done in the world done in the name of religion, as well as evil done in the world that doesn't acknowledge religion at all. With this in mind, we can try to look for a philosophy that has lasted where it's adherents have not commited evil or harm to others.

It is unfortunately my observation that no matter what philosophy a people identify themselves by there is still evil done among them. It is part of who we are as a collective species. Crime is not something done by religion. It's done by people who who either ignore their religion, hold no religion, or are encouraged by their religion to do so. (Again, a good reason to identify the differences among the religions. If one religion has crimes done in it's name and those acts are approved of by that religion, that is very different from crimes done in the name of a religion that that religion forbids that kind of action). Regardless though if it is a condition of mankind, then removing the religions that say it's wrong to lie, cheat, and kill won't help the situation when people find easy excuses to lie to each other; cheat one another; or to kill, harm, or otherwise oppress those they deem in the wrong. (Think politics and civil wars).