(October 10, 2013 at 2:06 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:(October 10, 2013 at 2:01 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Bollocks. Utter Tripe.
Counter with something worth discussing or don't bother responding at all.
Seeing as you seem unable to grasp the basic sociological and political points I made earlier without resorting to basic assertions and assumptions, I will conclude you are unable to. 'Equality'. You know nothing about the word, or the concept, or the history of it.
Have fun.
Equality and humanistic principals are what Jesus taught and many of the our civil rights movements and other acts such as the abolition of the slave trade were inspired by Christian morality. Not to say other religions don't teach some good morality but they didn't necessarily all teach equality of rights and status. In India for example they have a caste system and in the Islamic world men are still dominant to women something you may have noticed. You don't poo poo the achievements of Christian civilization or claim them in the name of atheism. Atheism did nothing at all.
Knowing the scientific fact that humans existed long before the concoction of Christianity, or even Hebrews, what makes you think anything good or bad a human can do did not exist prior to the invention of your pet superstition? And what makes you think people outside your superstition today cant come to the same conclusions about morality?
Christopher Hitchens, "Name me one good thing said, or good deed done, a believer could do that an atheist could not do".
