RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
April 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2012 at 10:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
No more than any war in which god has ever been invoked. "God" is often a placeholder for ambition, or a pretense for something less justifiable (if a war for any god could be said to be justifiable to begin with).
Do you think that god told Pope Urban II to call a Holy Crusade? In what way would our previous presidents political gaffs (now rightly seen as naive and baseless, even by someone of faith such as yourself) be different from Urban's call to arms (then perhaps truly believed in)?
You doubt that he spoke to god, but why? Does god speak to anyone? If you are free to doubt whether god spoke to this specific person then why am I not free to doubt whether god spoke to Abraham? If you feel that your doubts are well founded upon what basis would you dismiss my own?
Christianity is the way of "whatever believers assert at any given time" this has included holy war (and in many places, it still does). Recent atrocities? I'm sure we'll spend days trying to determine exactly what constitutes an "atrocity". It isn't exactly hard to find examples of the abuses suffered by unfortunate people under the guise of "religion". Religion -is- a boogeyman, I don't have to go looking to find one.
Do you think that god told Pope Urban II to call a Holy Crusade? In what way would our previous presidents political gaffs (now rightly seen as naive and baseless, even by someone of faith such as yourself) be different from Urban's call to arms (then perhaps truly believed in)?
You doubt that he spoke to god, but why? Does god speak to anyone? If you are free to doubt whether god spoke to this specific person then why am I not free to doubt whether god spoke to Abraham? If you feel that your doubts are well founded upon what basis would you dismiss my own?
Christianity is the way of "whatever believers assert at any given time" this has included holy war (and in many places, it still does). Recent atrocities? I'm sure we'll spend days trying to determine exactly what constitutes an "atrocity". It isn't exactly hard to find examples of the abuses suffered by unfortunate people under the guise of "religion". Religion -is- a boogeyman, I don't have to go looking to find one.
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