(July 19, 2018 at 9:02 am)Divinity Wrote: Still haven't embraced Atheism, as I think there's something bigger than us all even if I can't perceive it or even name it.
What, you mean you feel like you own something to somebody? The feeling of lesser value? It is perhaps the result from pressures that come from society and religion. Because being in religion you are constantly reminded that there are people who are better than you, holier, part of something greater and that you owe them for it because you are flawed and less fortunate.
I mean take a look at this picture
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A viewer may shriek at the destruction of one of the pharaohs, being an old monument, and sure it was probably destroyed by some zealot Christian, but let's presume it was destroyed by one of the members of Egyptian religion when the Egyptian gods were meeting their twilight. Because these people felt all their life like they owned these pharaohs a lot so perhaps some of them just attacked them because they were fed up toward the unjust order of thing.
Indeed this kind of influence is so ingrained in us that these people win long after they're gone because people still feel the need to preserve their castles, houses, temples. In contrast rarely anytime anyone feels the need to preserve a house of some poor family.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
