(December 18, 2015 at 9:53 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 17, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Why would Christians be any different than other people, though? It's not like being Christian magically turns someone's brain into that of a psychopath's. We still feel empathy towards people. Being a psychopath has nothing to do with being either Christian or Atheist.
The thing is we quite often get the "if you don't believe in god why don't yu go on a massive killing spree?" the implication is that the only thing holding these people back is their belief. Don't you find that scary? I do.
I find that scary too, but you look at human history religion worldwide never completely stops religious beefs or acts of cruelty to outsiders. Humans would do better to challenge themselves to think about what is really going on. Our species and evolution produce both empathy and cruelty and there really is no magic reason those things happen. It isn't advocating acts of cruelty, just a fact that there is no magic reason humans do what they do.
