(October 30, 2013 at 8:05 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: . . . and millennia past are leading toward future generations who will move us even further away from our roots - unless religion kills us all first.
This sounds interesting, but I think I missed something. What are you saying here?
And the "Do no harm" thing gets me, because what about in the defense of the weak?
Because, as a Christian (and I'm not bringing up God, just stating a moral dilemma that I think about every now and then) it seems that I should be as much of a pacifist as possible, turning the other cheek and all that, but am doesn't Evil win when Good does nothing?
If you just lay down to a bully, does the bully stop?
Seriously, I had this thought in my head once where all the good people in the world became complete pacifists and those who meant to do harm started to take over, but they saw that the good people were so good and so passive and forgiving that it changed those who meant harm. Kinda like the Grinch who stole Christmas . . .
Embarrassed a little to admit to this, but it was a thought none the less.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
