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Like everything, you can take good and bad away from it. Most use the bad to push an agenda, others use the good to push an agenda.
The flaw is within humanity, not the religion. Take, for instance, muslims. We are now learning that the Persian and Muslim influences have shaped a lot of what we know today. Early invention history has had to be re-written because a muslim or persian did it earlier than we'd known. ...BUT! Some extremist muslims did not like how advanced their society was becoming, because of any reason, really... mainly though, it was forgetting the "old" ways. So, they'd overthrow a leader or two and knock the people back down into the stone age. As that leader faded away, and the civilization started advancing again, another would come along to destroy it.
Is the flaw in the religion? Partly, because it leaves a lot open to interpretation. The main flaw is some bonehead who can't stand to see the old ways having to adapt. Who knows where we'd be as a society if people would have just calmed down for a few thousand years. It's easy to blame religion but religion didn't start the war. It took some zealot to do it.
I have a saying: Religion is beautiful. It's the people that ruin it.
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