RE: Ask a lifelong (irreligious) atheist
July 10, 2016 at 8:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2016 at 9:03 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(July 10, 2016 at 7:41 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Well, Jainism preaches non-violence towards all beings, and hate towards none.
Oh, yes, the Jains - the passive-aggressive nut-jobs. Sure - they preach non-violence, but seem to say nothing about the need to love anybody. Quite the opposite actually, with their emphasis on asceticism. They may be largely harmless wackos, but I don't imagine any sane person would want their loved ones to walk around naked, with a brush to sweep away bugs and refusing to eat a potato, for fear of murdering a microbe.
Quite frankly, to live like this one surely has to hate oneself.
"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