Worst invention in man's history (and why)

I dont think I seen any of you idiots say guns are the worst invention. As for why guns are,thats apparent enough.  Now…I will wait for Jennifer to chime in and say some dumb thing about guns and how they were beneficial to us and the world and blah,blah,blah…

If tyou think Guns are, you have never seen a Bow Specialist :-)

I know that only in hindsight does an invention show its benefits or faults,but it has to be guns–from handguns to the largest artillery pieces…The destruction they have caused is literally incalculable and dwarfs any benefit they have given humans. I bet for every animal shot for food with a gun,there have been five times as many people destroyed by guns during wars and in the commission of crimes. Atomic weapons are pretty bad too,but we have only used them twice,so I guess we will have to wait until after a few dozen cities are eradicated before we can say they are the worst invention.  All we have to do is just wait.

The second worst invention is religion

As a Christian, I have found not a truer statement… Religion kills…

GG

Ofcourse I think our definitions of Religion may be off… :wink:

OK, they don’t match :-D…

Religion is a pretty shitty invention, but not as bad as sporks.  Sporks suck.  And if anyone tries to defend the usefullness of a spork, the he or she is a card carrying communist.  I said it, and what!!  :-P

Religion := The belief in an afterline(heaven(reincarnation)/hell(reincarnation) ) for which a person must act according to the rules defined by a so-called supreme being or collection of these.

thats a pretty bad definition of religion. youve basically said the only three possibilities for a religious belief are: heaven, hell, or reincarnation.

has anyone said liberal socialist mindthought.  quit dreaming, the world hates itself, and wont hold hands.

@balungaloaf:

has anyone said liberal socialist mindthought.  quit dreaming, the world hates itself, and wont hold hands.

With that attitude, maybe you are right.  Gandhi, MLK, and others were all BSing us it seems.

once again quit dreaming.  Wasnt martin king jr.'s line “I have a dream”.  Gandhi was a huge huge racist, refered to blacks as caffers and said the race was lazy.  They were bs-ing you, big time.  all i’m saying if you believe in the everyone hold hands and dance in a circle crap, go to some mid-east countries or poor places in S america of africa and start talking to them friendly.  They wont care if you are friendly, because they dont want to be your friend.  They hate you and me.  the middle eastern ones would love to kill us, no matter what we do.

I’m not asking anyone to hold hands and chant “We are the world.”  I’m just asking people to grow up, stop the violence, and treat everyone else like human beings.  Of course, that would cause such a major change in this nation that I don’t think anyone would be up for it.  Perhaps people dislike us for what we DO, not who we ARE?

ORGANIZED religion would definitely be in the top 10 worst inventions.

small group of leaders controlling huge populations based on fear, myth and superstition
small group of leaders usign their populations to wage war on other competing leaders
small group of leaders taking power and wealth to themselves at the cost of their followers

It is a rare war or conflict that does not have a major religious component.  The Trojan War is the only one that comes immediately to mind… that was over a piece of tail :-P

Vietnam and Korea were both wars fought by Good Christian “In God We Trust” Americans against the Godless Atheistic Creeping Monolothic Communist Bloc.

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Thanks to Dr. Platt for the GACMCB reference.

Nope, they were wars to preserve American style Chistian Capitalism.