@ the OP
Only in the sense that I think the world would be a better place to live if it wasn't for religion. Not all delusions are harmful, but most of them are, and religion as a whole surely seems to have a bad effect IMO.
However, I do think things would be better off without religion. And when religious people are ever talked out of their beliefs, if they can ever be persuaded to drop their delusions (without violence of course), more power to skepticism and not believing in bullshit I say
I think what I said above, and I'd also like to add: I also advocate the 'conversational intolerance' that Sam Harris does. Non-violent resistance to religion, pseudo-science, and other bullshit.
EvF
(November 14, 2009 at 1:19 pm)solarwave Wrote: If there is no God does it matter if people believe in Him?
Only in the sense that I think the world would be a better place to live if it wasn't for religion. Not all delusions are harmful, but most of them are, and religion as a whole surely seems to have a bad effect IMO.
Quote:So do you have a problem with people believing in God? Of course religion has caused some bad things to happen in the past, but I think what it brings to individual lives out weighs this.I think everyone has a right to believe so long as they don't impose their beliefs on others or, say, indoctrinate their children.
However, I do think things would be better off without religion. And when religious people are ever talked out of their beliefs, if they can ever be persuaded to drop their delusions (without violence of course), more power to skepticism and not believing in bullshit I say
Quote:What do you think and why?
I think what I said above, and I'd also like to add: I also advocate the 'conversational intolerance' that Sam Harris does. Non-violent resistance to religion, pseudo-science, and other bullshit.
EvF
