RE: 7 Points of a Godless Life
September 2, 2015 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2015 at 9:51 pm by Cecelia.)
(September 2, 2015 at 2:22 pm)ChadWooter Wrote: Empathy, evolved or otherwise, gets you nowhere, because the feeling of empathy is just one among many other instinctual responses like disgust, contempt, fear and shame. You have no basis for privileging one set of feelings over another other your own personal inclination to do so.
It's really no different for religious people. Just look at how people cherry pick the parts of their religious text that they like, and ignore the rest. Look at how they used Christianity to justify slavery, to justify the treatment of gay people, and many other things. We just don't get our instructions from a book that says to kill people (and then mostly ignore and justify it by calling it the laws of the time) for the things they do. It's great when people ignore some of the bigotry that the book inspires, but that's just the differences between individuals the same as it is for atheists.
It's no coincidence that everyone interprets their religious text differently.
