(March 29, 2017 at 10:25 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(March 29, 2017 at 8:51 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Exactly. Only religious nutjobs engage in the act of 'stoning someone to death'.
And no I don't mean literally and to be honest it's rather sad that even the scare quotes isn't enough for some intentionally obtuse people.
Ignoring what I wrote, because you can't find anything rational to face it with, is exactly the opposite of the word "exactly".
To be honest, it's so sad to see somebody using religion as a justification for their own mindset; kill butcher stone burn then throw it on Jesus or Mohammed.
A guy somewhere, dealing with rejection through raping his school crush, then blame the way she dresses. That is what stoning to death is; husbands that can't handle the insult of their wives fucking other men.
Keep dreaming of a higher self.
Atlas, while I am glad you are neither Sunni or Shiite, like Christians and Jews and Hindus and Buddhists, you still miss the point.
What makes humans do cruel things is our evolution, what makes us do good things is also our evolution. A lioness will protect it's cub, while a male lion will kill any cub it finds not to be of it's loins. Zebras will do the same too. Elephants protect their young and mourn their dead. If you raise a cat and dog together from a kitten and puppy in the same house they are far more likely to get along because of that familiarity.
There is no "higher self" there is no such thing as "nirvana" or reincarnation either. There is however, a very good side of our species, our ability to be compassionate. And our ability to understand nature through science. That does not mean we have to look at life without art or love, it merely means we don't need to assign the beauty of life to magic or gods or superstition.
As far as adultery that is a mythological word rooted in religion. In evolutionary biology it is explained. Males produce more sperm than a female has eggs. That lopsided ratio lead our species males to seek out multiple partners. Lots of mammals such as other apes, and lions and Zebras do the same as males. Now, that is NOT to say human men and women value multiple relationships, it is merely is a scientific explanation of where our sex drive evolved from.
What the real pain is for humans as far as shying away from adultery is the lying, the omission the violation of trust, not the sex itself. Polygamy is rooted in evolution, other mammals have multiple partners. NO it does not justify that either, but again, an explanation as to where the real roots of our species behavior come from.
Other species such as penguins pick one partner and stay with them for life. Humans evolved for some individual women and men to be more driven to multiple partners while others are driven to seek out one for life. So for humans we evolved to do both.
Emotionally in the west what we evolved to socially is to expect honesty but unfortunately with every religion it takes that concept and ruins it with old explanations.
