RE: Atheist Utopia
June 3, 2014 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2014 at 12:01 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 1, 2014 at 9:02 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: There's plenty of unfair shit that goes down without god entering the conversation at all (except superficially).
Pretty sure the Koch brothers and their ilk don't give a shit about religion, except in as far as money is their god.
Getting rid of god without injecting the world automatically with common sense, higher IQ's, and a sense of empathy and compassion just frees a lot of people up to spend their Wednesdays and Sundays figuring out heinous things to fill up their free time.
Pretty much...
The powerful would just find other irrational beliefs and dogma to use to manipulate the masses with.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
