RE: Anti-Theism
December 4, 2017 at 7:39 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2017 at 7:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 4, 2017 at 1:14 am)Whateverist Wrote: I don't entirely get anti-theism either. I think it comes from thinking it is all a scheme hatched by slimeballs to extract tithes and ruin people's Sundays. I'm inclined to think there is no clandestine mob bosses running religion as a racket. While some may lose their way, I suspect those higher up are acting on the same koolaid as they're passing out to everyone else.
LOL, no...though that very often is how it gets used.
It's about recognizing that filling the "god hole" leads inexorably to misery. Hitchens had a great line, summing it up.
Quote:There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking.No terrible thing some person does from the basis of their faith surprises me in the least. They are -always- internally logical outgrowths of their beliefs, and their beliefs are inherently dangerous. In the crushing majority of cases of people doing fucked up shit, we look for "what went wrong" with that person; with theistic faith...it's more often a case of what went "right". The man in the sky brings out the worst in his followers.
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