Originally posted by Emperordmb
Marriage is also forced on people in third world shitholes, guess we should judge marriage to be inherently corrupt and abolish that too.
False equivalency. No one is saying BAN RELIGION or BAN MARRIAGE. The point is the man is being punished for basically what is nothing more than a thought crime. Religion gives us that great nugget of moral wisdom.
Originally posted by Emperordmb
Religion also gave us the great moral wisdom of inalienable rights that makes the West so great, and from that comes the tradition of there not being thought crimes in the West.
Which is why, in my view, religions should be criticised individually instead of grouping them together. Some religions are worse than others.
Originally posted by Emperordmb
Religion also gave us the great moral wisdom of inalienable rights that makes the West so great...
You're going to have to do some serious work to convince me of that. I think it's more likely that inalienable rights came about in spite of religion. Maybe a belief in God helped it come about, but certainly not religious texts themselves with the condoning of slavery and subjugation of women.
I question religion but a lot of atheists go out of their way to put down religious people who are decent. if their god doesn't exist to you then there's no need to bash. just ignore. don't virtue signal and act like you're trying to save lives. it's obvious, you're just trying to appear smarter. quit that shiit.
Originally posted by socool8520
I guess the eating of babies would cause some mental and health issues though.
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It's funny, but sadly this is actually probably an all-too-real perception that many people have of atheists, which is why we can't get anyone relatively reasonable elected to public office.
Originally posted by Emperordmb
No, generally speaking though I've seen atheists emphasize criticism of Christianity over criticisms of other ideologies is the main point I'm making. The atheists who have their priorities straight are the ones who I actually think are concerned with making the world a better place even if I disagree with them on Christianity, the atheists who spend over half of their ideological criticism aimed at western religion to me seem more like they're trying to settle some personal score (such as say being pissed off at their religious family for their upbringing) than actually being motivated by altruism.
But nah, leave it to religious people to try and shame atheists for not solving problems they have far more power and resources to solve than atheists do. Problems that are possibly more attributable to religious imposition, then a criticism of religion.
Last I checked, Aithiest's lack of belief isn't the reason why 38% of people in our country still believe in creationism.
Originally posted by Emperordmb
Religion also gave us the great moral wisdom of inalienable rights that makes the West so great, and from that comes the tradition of there not being thought crimes in the West.
There's a reason that we've progressed as our society has become more secular and has less reliant on the church for the decisions we make.
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
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Yea, no, religion was the reason monarchy was a thing in the first place.There's a reason that we've progressed as our society has become more secular and has less reliant on the church for the decisions we make.
Again if you wanna say religion's a net negative, that's your prerogative, but if you wanna say nothing good has ever come out of it for anyone that's just you being obtuse.