RE: do you worry about if anything bad would happen if christianity died?
February 12, 2016 at 1:19 pm
(February 12, 2016 at 11:07 am)Rextos Wrote: i have more reason to hate christianity than most people simply because i was brainwashed at such a young age and it made me feel like everything bad that happened to me in life was my fault and i was a failure, and that caused me emotional suffering that i still deal with today and which is a huge reason why i am agnostic these days cus it makes me feel like all religions are just condescending bullshit. but at the same time i feel like if christianity was completely gone, then it would be like "every man for himself" and all those christian charities and missions that help people in 3rd world countries and even homeless in the US would be shut down and people would be a lot meaner cus everyone would believe in "survival of the fittest" - so i kinda feel like it's a double edged sword, cus i can't stand condescending and bigoted people, but at the same time not all Christians are like that and a lot of them do actually want to help people and make this world a better place.
and i have been in situations where i was looking at being jailed, but i felt like its because of christianity the judge and social workers had compassion on me, that i was able to turn my life around, otherwise i may be dead today even.
It wasn't their religion that helped you. It was their evolutionary empathy. The fact they falsely attributed their compassion to that old book doesn't change that.
All religions point to their pretty motifs and depictions of kindness. That should tell humans something. That should tell us that our ability to be cruel and compassionate is in our evolution, not the clubs we falsely attribute our behaviors to.
Our species was around long before the first written religions, and even back then we had compassion and empathy. And since then religions have come and gone and we have still displayed cruelty and compassion.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins explains why humans gap fill. But Victor Stenger's "The New Atheism" adds to that in later chapters comparing a variety of world's religions and the common ideas of kindness, but also points out despite that, labels also don't magically make an individual do good.
Our species ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, not the placebos humans create as gap fill answers.
If we could invent a time machine and go forward 10,000 years we would see our current religions morph into different forms or die out completely, and humans would have new false perceptions they call clubs they would attribute their good acts to.
