“According to the Bible…”
No, fuck you. It’s the 21st century. Don’t you fucking quote the deluded ramblings of half-literate goatherds cobbled together through the years as a guide for anything. We’ve had 2,000 years of scientific advancement and we have nuclear weapons and your superstitious magic sky fairy bullshit is going to get us all killed.
Daz
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I appreciate the honesty, but science into human behaviour certainly points out that putting it to words like this only hardens the resistance, because it triggers a value judgement and group vs group conflict identity response.
To inflict change in a major judgement, one must slowly and tirelessly pick away at all the little prior judgements, that anchor it and hold it in place.
ermo | Rune Morling
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I take it to mean that you think all similar religious texts should also not be sources of truth then, including the Quran, the Torah etc.?
This is not an attempt at being facetious btw; I'm genuinely curious about your stance.
For my part, I get the sense that many of these texts are trying to impart cultural lessons about how to survive as humans in a society. I would imagine that these cultural lessons would tend to evolve over time, as humanity as a whole learns more about the world?
Aral Balkan
in reply to ermo | Rune Morling • • •@ermo Oh, no, those other fairy tales are entirely true.
We had culture and ethics far before organised religions. Superstitious belief and, furthermore systems dreamt up by men to subjugate women and exert control on society are in no way a prerequisite for leading an ethical life. If religious people act ethically, they are doing it despite the toxic venom in those texts, not because of it. And the ones acting according to those texts are busy commit genocide as we speak.
maxelcat
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •a simple sentence that fully disproves the existence of God:
This sentence isn’t known to be true by any omniscient being.
#atheism #atheist #theism #religion #god
seeker78
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I think religious zealousness, ideology is harmful. Are some of the broader lessons still applicable? Sure. But not dogmatic adherence.
For example the biblical book of Proverbs has a few good bits here and there, but one must use RATIONAL JUDGEMENT to discern them. Sadly, rational judgment is generally lacking in society.
- Former uber strict Catholic, now non-commited who knows what
Darrell Bowles
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