(December 11, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 10, 2015 at 6:53 pm)Amine Wrote: Their view of "not hurting anyone" may be different depending on their beliefs. That's the problem. Everyone thinks they are the good guys. If you're Catholic, then perhaps abortion is a good example to use. If Catholicism is correct, then abortion could be a terrible atrocity on par with or exceeding the Holocaust*. This would make atheists who support abortion very harmful people indeed, although they believe what they are doing is good. On the other hand, if atheism is true then aborting an insentient blob of cells (leaving later term abortions alone for now) is completely harmless, and all Christians who make this problem central to their lives are wasting enormous amounts of time which could be spent far more productively.
We could think of many more examples like this.
*As a side note, I always felt that if Christianity were true aborting an embryo or fetus would be doing it the favor of sending it directly to heaven. I wish I would have been aborted, if that's the case. But this is beside the point.
In what way am I making the world a worst place?
I don't know what you believe so I can only guess. That's why I gave the abortion example. Your effect on the world depends on what is true. If you oppose abortion and it turns out that atheism is true, wouldn't you agree that you are making the world a worse place for people who want to get abortions? I know you have good intentions, but don't you think that believing in true things matters as to which decisions a person should make?
