RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 18, 2023 at 1:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2023 at 2:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
(June 18, 2023 at 1:00 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: "once the author reveals that religion is the cause of conservative generosity, that liberal Christians give almost as much as conservative Christians, and that non-religious conservatives are actually the least compassionate and generous group, the surprise is ruined, because it’s really not much of a surprise that religious people give more than non-religious people (unless you’re a staunch atheist who thinks religious people are evil)."..[/color]
So much for "religion really poisons everything. " But hey, if Hitchens said it, it must be right, right? Wrong.
Yes, religion does poison everyting including charity because religious organizations use most of the money to build castles, jets, jewelry, cars etc. Like, have you seen the Vatican lately? How many stariving people could be saved by selling the tresures and castles there?
So the world is better off wih godless organizations: UNICEF, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, S.H.A.R.E., Goodwill Industries, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"