RE: "I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"
February 25, 2011 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2011 at 1:08 pm by Rwandrall.)
(February 25, 2011 at 12:57 pm)Shell B Wrote: I wish I could give you one hundred kudos for that. I'll further your response and say that religion itself is probably not responsible for respect for life, equality and compassion. All of these things go back as far in human history as we've been able to delve.
Christianity also went against human and animal sacrifices for example. Again, nothing is all black or all white.
About the moral concepts, Aristotle, who is pretty much a big deal in te world of philosophy, thought that the poor and the downtrodden deserved sympathy and pity. A big idea for his time, but nowhere as far as what christianity brought.
If you take China or its neighboring countries, you'll see that human life simply does not possess the same value. In the groups advocating for the suppression of the death penalty, and humn rights as a whole, many of them were religious. Yes, many amongst the religious are bigots and full of hatred. Many are not.
