RE: Is It Possible for Humanity to Create a Peaceful World with Religion in it?
October 28, 2016 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2016 at 5:35 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(October 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm)abaris Wrote: Why?
You find both approaches sufficiently covered in all the holy books. Everyone can make a pick to their liking.
The good doesn't wash out the bad and it certainly doesn't remove the stink of dogma.
(October 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm)abaris Wrote: And I stress again. The absence of religion would only create a different world, not a better one. Human nature stands against that.
Human nature isn't magically tuned to an ethical constant of sorts that makes it make up for the removal of one source of suffering from the world by forcing it to substitute another in its place. That is an irrational belief of yours whether you arrive at it by the reasoning I just mockingly exemplified or by another.
(October 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm)abaris Wrote: In fact I find the approach of some atheists to be anti theists as presumptuous than the religious one of wanting to shove their believes down everyone's throats.
How so?
(October 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm)abaris Wrote: And it doesn't end there. There's more than sufficient political radicalism in this world. We keep talking about the dangers of religion while at the same time large parts of Europe are up to their neck in a sea of shit of revived nationalism. The same kind of nationalism that brought us the Great wars of the last century.
No one is disputing the dangers of nationalism, abaris , but this is an atheist forum and the topic under discussion is the viability of peace in the presence of religion. Why are you surprised at the relevance of topic this discussion is geared for ?
