See if you can spot the pattern.
"The Good is Allah"...... Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Yahweh" Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Buddha"... Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Brahma(Hindu top God)" Still make sense to you?
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Me, "The good is in our behaviors, and most humans are capable of doing and being good. I simply don't assign our behaviors to old mythology."
Now, if you can accept that those outside your position are capable of being good and doing good, GREAT. I'd agree. That says to me that religion isn't doing it, anymore than a lucky bat is giving a baseball player home runs.
There is not one nation, friend or foe alike that does not have hospitals or prisons. There has never been in our species history a 100% conflict free period of any religion. Every religion and nation in our species history has had conflicts within and with outsiders.
That says to me morality isn't magic, isn't being handed down from a divine place, or our spirit ancestors. That says to me humans can be capable of both good and bad, compassion and cruelty, and neither require magic or old mythology to explain. It is still up to humans how we chose to interact with each other.
"The Good is Allah"...... Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Yahweh" Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Buddha"... Still make sense to you?
"The Good is Brahma(Hindu top God)" Still make sense to you?
....................................
Me, "The good is in our behaviors, and most humans are capable of doing and being good. I simply don't assign our behaviors to old mythology."
Now, if you can accept that those outside your position are capable of being good and doing good, GREAT. I'd agree. That says to me that religion isn't doing it, anymore than a lucky bat is giving a baseball player home runs.
There is not one nation, friend or foe alike that does not have hospitals or prisons. There has never been in our species history a 100% conflict free period of any religion. Every religion and nation in our species history has had conflicts within and with outsiders.
That says to me morality isn't magic, isn't being handed down from a divine place, or our spirit ancestors. That says to me humans can be capable of both good and bad, compassion and cruelty, and neither require magic or old mythology to explain. It is still up to humans how we chose to interact with each other.