“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
--Steven Weinberg
Now, I don't actually believe this. But I do believe good people will do awful things in the name of a cause they believe in. Whether that be Jesus, Mohammed, Ganesh, Wotan, Communism, Capitalism, Democracy or Atheism.
But there is a huge difference between the first 4 and the last 4. A supernatural supposedly moral being is not giving horrible instructions.
Bombing churches is not a tenet of atheism. Its just some sick bastard. Because atheism isn't a world view. Its simply the disbelief of a single superstitious claim.
There is no book of atheism. No right or wrong way handed down from some phoney pastor or imam. No revelations that are
I've always been amused when Christians try and take the high ground on goodness and morality. Usually its because they haven't even read their "Good Book" which in fact is not good or moral. If you think is, you either haven't read it or you're one sick puppy.
Just some of the moral things the bible says
Killing one's wife if she's not a virgin on her wedding night.and depositing her corpse on her father's doorstep.
Stoning someone for working on the Sabbath.
Enslaving others.
Beating your slaves.
Killing witches
Killing homosexuals.
Having your unruly child stoned by the village.
Torturing someone for eternity because they are not gullible.
Here's my Easter message.
Favor
- Evidence over epiphanies
- Reason over revelations
- Science over superstitions
- Facts over Faith
- Reality over Religion
Can I have an Amen?