(December 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(December 21, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Yes indeed. Those hoards of warrior Buddhist monks .. they were so fierce.
How much division in our species has been caused by people with a bug up their ass, demanding their definition is the right one ?. That religion.
If I was excluding the word "atheist" you'd have a case. But show me where in this thread I ever claimed that atheists should "practice" being atheists. Not even that is a "practice" it is a mere position on one claim. Not even that word "atheist" should be seen as a "practice".
You are either a good person, or you are not. There is nothing to "practice" as far as avoiding harm to others. Labels do not have magic powers to cause someone to only do good.
You follow a religion. But there is no "practice" to be had in knowing humans are all capable of both doing good and bad.
So people can't learn to be good, or change their ways. I see.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
