(April 4, 2014 at 6:12 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: So, if a Christian lives a good life and does the things Christ asked them to do, don't judge, forgive, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, care for the sick and elderly, love your enemies etc. and they lived such a life with the motivation that they were going to be in a garden getting their dick sucked for all eternity, wouldn't their belief in such bullshit be a good thing?I think that it retards our development. We should be looking for ways to progress without a crutch and work together towards general goals, not spending a lifetime looking over our shoulders and hoping that it ends before we go bonkers, hoping that when we die we finally are allowed to live.
If the only effect of religion was that otherwise wicked and dangerous people would curb their anti-social natures, then it'd be useful, at least. Instead, it has been used to devastatingly bloody effect as people commit some of the most horrific crimes driven by a belief that it is both good and necessary.
When considered in that context, believing in bullshit is a very bad thing.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould