RE: Was Christianity started to control the masses and dictate poltical agendas
April 7, 2018 at 8:08 am
Religion sometimes angers atheists because it is a cultural force and people take it very seriously.... All the while, it's complete BS.
Politicians motivate blocs of voters with it. People want to limit gay rights because of it. On the extreme, you have elected officials saying we shouldn't worry about global warming because God promised Noah he wouldn't flood the world again. What a load!
People ACTUALLY BELIEVE that atheists don't have a moral compass, simply because we don't subscribe to a silly fairy tale. I've heard this several times in RL. People are baffled that atheists care about doing the right thing. The thing is, when a theist really wants to do something rotten, he just goes ahead and does it anyway. The only difference is, he has a weird mechanism for setting it right-- apologizing to a being who doesn't exist. Atheists have to set things right with the actual person we've wronged.
That's why "fairy tales" bother us. Because people take them seriously in their personal and political lives. How would you feel if congress passed laws that affected YOU because of Hindu reincarnation? How did it make you feel in the last paragraph when I insinuated that theists shirk moral responsibility? THAT'S HOW WE FEEL.
Politicians motivate blocs of voters with it. People want to limit gay rights because of it. On the extreme, you have elected officials saying we shouldn't worry about global warming because God promised Noah he wouldn't flood the world again. What a load!
People ACTUALLY BELIEVE that atheists don't have a moral compass, simply because we don't subscribe to a silly fairy tale. I've heard this several times in RL. People are baffled that atheists care about doing the right thing. The thing is, when a theist really wants to do something rotten, he just goes ahead and does it anyway. The only difference is, he has a weird mechanism for setting it right-- apologizing to a being who doesn't exist. Atheists have to set things right with the actual person we've wronged.
That's why "fairy tales" bother us. Because people take them seriously in their personal and political lives. How would you feel if congress passed laws that affected YOU because of Hindu reincarnation? How did it make you feel in the last paragraph when I insinuated that theists shirk moral responsibility? THAT'S HOW WE FEEL.
