(January 15, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 14, 2017 at 4:38 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:
Right.
When a religious person does something bad, it's because of religion. When a religious person does something good, inspired by and influenced by his/her religions to do it, all of the sudden religion has nothing to do with it.
Quoting "Steven Weinberg" (whoever he is) doesn't make this inconsistency/double standard any less bs.
How could you read that quote and miss the line about 'good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things?'
But religion - yours in particular - has a sordid history of inspiring shit like this.
Quote:The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place five days after the wedding of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV of France). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.
The massacre began in the night of 23–24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centres and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000.
Were they ALL evil? Or were they just doing what their leaders told them to do?