(June 16, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(June 15, 2016 at 7:20 pm)Losty Wrote: I disagree. I think all people should be treated with a certain amount of kindness and respect. I think all people should have the right to their own beliefs. I will not ever try to force anyone to believe something other than whatever they believe.
But religion as a whole has been harmful. Religion as a whole should be educated away. It leads to wars, murders, and other tragedies. It leads otherwise good people to do terrible things like beat their children or harass a rape victim for having an abortion.
That's further than I care to go. I think its s presumptuous to assume that something like god belief which has been around everywhere and for as long as people have been recognizably people will just be educated away. To truly be respectful of others and their right to believe what they will I can't. That doesn't mean there is a shred of doubt regarding my non belief. I can also specify particular aspects of god belief which I find ludicrous and which I don't at all respect. But I won't carry that prejudice into every encounter I have with a religious person. I wouldn't want to be someone who has to carry that every where I go.
I didn't mean we should teach people not to believe. I only meant the more we educate people (just normal education) it will die out.
You may disagree but I would say human beings are now more intelligent than they ever have been in the past. I also think we will only continue to become more intelligent.
