RE: Ask a lifelong (irreligious) atheist
July 10, 2016 at 7:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 8:32 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(July 10, 2016 at 6:32 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Is indoctrination in to belief that we must strive to become more loving is bad? In my opinion its noble, even if its painful.
Are you pretending to be thick? Most religions don't demand that their followers become "more loving" - only more obedient and fearful. And there isn't a single religion that ONLY teaches love; every single one - of those that even mention love of certain people - also preaches hate of some other group/-s (like people of different religions/denominations, or atheists, or homosexuals, or women). Additionally, all of them also propagate a false model of reality and that can never be a good thing.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
