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Re: Things You Should Never Do In A Church Again by hopefulLandlord: 8:08am On Apr 17, 2018 |
Scientist7:
There is clearly a lot of dirty bath water surrounding the reality of God. Holy wars. Inquisitions. Superstition.Dogmatism. Ignorance. Hypocrisy. Self-righteousness. Rigidity. Cruelty. Book-burning. Witch-burning. Inhibition. Fear. Conformity.Morbid guilt. Insanity. The list is almost endless. But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God? It is abundantly evident that belief in God is sometimes destructively dogmatic. Is the problem, then, that humans tend to believe in God, or is the problem that humans tend to be dogmatic? Anyone who has known a died-in-the-wool atheist will know that such an individual can be as dogmatic about unbelief as any believer can be about belief. Is it belief in God we need to get rid of, or is it dogmatism? There have been clear cases of atheists killing christians, the recent case in the US being a church mass killing. Look at the present day atheist government of china collecting from their citizenry the freedom of religion, you'll sooner than later begin to see the effects. Another reason that scientists are so prone to throw the baby out with the bath water is that science itself is a religion. The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or a soldier of Allah. This is particularly the case when we have come to science from a culture and home in which belief in God is firmly associated with ignorance, superstition, rigidity and hypocrisy. Then we have emotional as well as intellectual motives to smash the idols of primitive faith. A mark of maturity in scientists, however, is their awareness that science may be as subject to dogmatism as any other religion.
That being said, some religions however are inherently problematic, especially those that promote violence, killing and forceful world domination but you don't have to generalize. Generalizing on this matter is similar to saying because one leader is found to be corrupt then every leader is corrupt. The problem is not religion, the problem is dogmatism, fanatism, extremism and atheists and scientists are as susceptible to it as anyone else. You claimed "Atheism is a religion too" and I asked you to prove it but nothing in this reply is pertinent to the question asked |
Re: Things You Should Never Do In A Church Again by Scientist7: 9:47am On Apr 17, 2018 |
hopefulLandlord:
You claimed "Atheism is a religion too" and I asked you to prove it but nothing in this reply is pertinent to the question asked You can't see it now due to your bias. Save my post and one day you may understand and see the point |
Re: Things You Should Never Do In A Church Again by hopefulLandlord: 10:01am On Apr 17, 2018 |
Scientist7:
You can't see it now due to your bias. Save my post and one day you may understand and see the point actually I understood your post perfectly, you're saying atheists can be dogmatic but that doesn't make atheism a religion If atheism is a religion then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour 1 Like |