RE: Does the award for the greatest evil go to Satan or God?
August 27, 2012 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2012 at 3:46 pm by Greatest I am.)
(August 21, 2012 at 2:00 pm)KnockEmOuttt Wrote: The greatest evil goes to the priests, reverends, imams, and rabbis.
+ 1
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DL
(August 22, 2012 at 2:13 pm)festive1 Wrote: festive1 Wrote:
I'm in the Hitchens' camp on this one. (Rough paraphrasing...) "There will always be evil people who do evil things, but how do you get good people to do evil things? Religion."
I learn.
I did not think he coined that. Good for him.
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DL
Apologies, I dont' know how to quote, other than to cut and paste...
But anyhoo... I believe it was Hitchens, at least I've seen debates where he's said this, but he may have adopted it from elsewhere. If you think this is the case, what is this other source? I'm always trying to find new stuff to read/learn!
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/religion...10565.html
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DL
(August 22, 2012 at 8:25 pm)ThomM Wrote: Neither a god nor a satan exist beyond that of fairy tales - no one has ever provided any Testable and verifiable PROOF of the existence of either.
THEREFORE
THe greatest evil is Religion
I would say the people in it but we are on the same page.
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DL
(August 22, 2012 at 8:42 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I think the Satan character is the more moral of the two. He's certainly the most interesting.
And lovable as compared to God.
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DL
Thanks to all.
I am not surprised that most feel that God deserves the evil award.
Good that we all recognise a prick as a prick.
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DL
