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I don't think that religion preaches hate necessarily; for some people it can be a very beautiful thing. I think the original message has been grossly filtered and perverted by many people so that they only hear and obey what they want to hear and obey. ARTelevision, stories like yours piss me off, a lot. My parents grew up in Pakistan, a country where very radical Islam still exists despite a mostly secular government now, and they've told me stories about the kind of corporal punishment, combined with brainwashing, that goes on in many schools.
The way I see it, religion is (or should be, or originally was) mostly about respecting yourself, respecting others, and showing some humility; an individual is not the beginning and end of the universe. that's it. Unfortunately sixate and others are correct that hate is all that comes out of it much of the time.
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