RE: How to be an Atheist?
January 24, 2016 at 4:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 4:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 23, 2016 at 10:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Quote:I remain Catholic largely because I like Jesus ! He seems so decent and kind, as far as Gods and myths go. Unlike other Gods (like Anubis,Thor,Poseiden,Zeus, Odin, etc.) Jesus was (and still is) decent and kind to people, especially the poor and vulnerable. While Jesus might not have made sense all the time, he seems like a far more generous and kindly soul than the other Gods I mentioned. How many lepers,blind men and cripples did Poseiden help again
Ok, so why aren't you a Clausist? Santa helps people all the time. And - for the record - Poseidon helped exactly as many people as Jesus did - nil = nil.
Boru
And also why don't you worship Jonas Salk who invented polio vaccine? Just in 20th century it is estimated that 500 million people died out of Polio (most of which were kids) and this guy, Jonas Salk, made the decease go away - it was not Jesus, Poseidon or Santa Clause or prayers, but man armed with knowledge in science. Now even if accounts are true that Jesus healed some lepers it doesn't even come close to what Jonas Salk did by saving billions of people and yet rarely anyone talks about Salk because he used science. Not to mention if Jesus was all knowing what a cunt he was for not telling people about antibiotics and penicillin to cure Leprosy for everyone not just few that happen to be on his way to the toilet.
Seriously if you really want to help people and this world then better throw away any notions of religion and afterlife because then you'll become aware that this is the only life you have and only world that you have a chance calling paradise. If more people were atheist then the world would be better and more fun place because they would place their maximum to this world and not save it when they they because they will supposedly be revealed all the truths about the universe by it's creator. People would be much more curious to know what's going around in this world, in our solar system and our universe.
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"