RE: The only way I could believe .......
April 28, 2017 at 7:25 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2017 at 7:30 am by Fake Messiah.)
And another thing about the mentality that "God is giving us messages" in everything doesn't necessarily need to be bad, but it always does. For instance when ever there is a large problem, like let's say AIDS is today, why don't priests ever say "Aha! That is God telling us to invest more in medicine and find a cure for AIDS." - but if you have any experience with religious mentality you know this sounds ridiculous. No religious person would ever respond like this, except maybe Cornel West. Even your most benign religious people like those old grandmothers that pray in church will not think like this.
For all of them it's just an opportunity for bloodshed and torture. To kill gays, forbid gay marriage, tell people that contraception causes AIDS and so on.
This is not just the case with AIDS if you look at history for almost every big epidemic there was blood to shed, which was usually Jewish blood and guts.
Or if earthquake happens you won't hear from religious authority "Let's invest more in science of detecting earthquakes". Oh no! It's the western clothing, the gays, the Jews, the sex... it's because people aren't being punished enough.
Now why would that be if God of the Bible or Koran is really peaceful underneath all those "misunderstood" violent passages? Because it's not. "God" is indeed well understood and violent way religious people act when problem happens proves it. Proves the ancient barbaric morality of people that wrote it to legitimize crimes they were then committing.
For all of them it's just an opportunity for bloodshed and torture. To kill gays, forbid gay marriage, tell people that contraception causes AIDS and so on.
This is not just the case with AIDS if you look at history for almost every big epidemic there was blood to shed, which was usually Jewish blood and guts.
Or if earthquake happens you won't hear from religious authority "Let's invest more in science of detecting earthquakes". Oh no! It's the western clothing, the gays, the Jews, the sex... it's because people aren't being punished enough.
Now why would that be if God of the Bible or Koran is really peaceful underneath all those "misunderstood" violent passages? Because it's not. "God" is indeed well understood and violent way religious people act when problem happens proves it. Proves the ancient barbaric morality of people that wrote it to legitimize crimes they were then committing.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
