RE: Atheist Evangelism
October 26, 2023 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2023 at 7:52 am by GrandizerII.)
(October 26, 2023 at 2:37 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Nice people can be religious, and religious people can be nice.
But that just helps religion become more acceptable in society and spreads it more. Nice people can cause harm inadvertently by making a nasty ideology more acceptable.
At root, all religious ideology is dangerous because all contain false and immoral teachings that inevitably lead to suffering or loss. The damage religion causes is huge, and it hinders progress enormously.
Nah, this is too much of a sweeping statement and just encourages unwarranted bigotry against religious people. Not all religions require that they contain immoral teachings or false teachings for that matter. And false teachings aren't innately dangerous, they're just false. And religion isn't compelled to impede progress.
And even within one religion, there are many branches and different schools of thought and philosophy. They're not all equally wrong or immoral or dangerous (if at all).