RE: Unconventional Religion
August 18, 2013 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2013 at 5:36 pm by Consilius.)
(August 18, 2013 at 3:32 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm not sure I follow what you have in mind by the part I've bolded. What do you think is the proper place of the bible for a Christian? Do you think of it as the result of divine dictation or as the work of inspired men (as can be found in many other books as well)? I'd very much like to know your views on the bible.A religious text will tell you that some things are good and some things are bad. When we do bad things, bad things happen…NATURALLY. It's not just karma, it's the way society is. Societal evils detoriate our way of life as people and as a society, which is why we don't allow them to be practiced. The way religion brings God into this is that He is the ultimate standard of perfection. Imperfection is contradictory to Him, and cannot exist with Him. To refuse good things like morals is to refuse God and lack His prescence.
To say that God possessed people to write holy words into a dark and sinful world is to give Him less credit than He should have. Punishment for wrong is more than divine hurricanes. It is what human society is engineered to provide. This world isn't a place for evil, which is why it cannot coexist with society. As a Christian, I'd say God is more present than it seems.
To specify, I don't think the Bible writers were divinely possessed in any miraculous way. They simply had the right idea about their religion, about our world, and were authorized to write about it.
(August 18, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Rape is an evolutionary throw back that was useful before we lived in societies.We still didn't need a divine voice to tell us rape was wrong. Isn't rape still evolutionarily beneficial now?
While on the topic, do atheists besides genekaus here believe in altruism?
