RE: Two Myths I Wish Atheists Would Stop Buying Into
June 6, 2018 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2018 at 12:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that if I had to pick one myth I wish people would stop believing in, it's the substitutionary model of atonement - in all of its forms. Conceived of from one angle as vicarious redemption and...from the other, scapegoating...it's equal parts immensely harmful and monumentally stupid.
The entire world would be better off if we'd stop hurting the other guy for our own mistakes, in all of the creative ways we manage to do so. Instead, we elevate it to the status of divine melodrama, as though it were a rightful part of the fabric of the cosmos.
The entire world would be better off if we'd stop hurting the other guy for our own mistakes, in all of the creative ways we manage to do so. Instead, we elevate it to the status of divine melodrama, as though it were a rightful part of the fabric of the cosmos.
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