(January 2, 2015 at 3:25 am)ronedee Wrote: Where will ALL the good people come from? Per society (and atheist) wishes, God and His people will diminish. But then, Allah and his cohorts are their replacement! A New World Order needs a new minor annoyance.... Oui? Do you not find it strange that our society is now embracing almost everything that is counter to our sense of natural order? Its actually, mind boggling! And at a pace that is making heads spin! Or roll as Allah and our govt would have it!
God and Allah are the same. They are even the same god being. Gabriel and Jesus kind of give Allah's disguise away, try as he might. And from an atheist perspective, god is god and speaking only for me of course, I don't want to abolish religion, I just want it's greedy little fingers kept out of politics. Believe what you want, but don't try to shove it down the throats of innocent bystanders.
As for morality and empathy. Animals have them too, as recent experiments show. It's hard coded in our system, if we aren't sociopaths. Evolution took care of that, since being social gives an advantage. No need to follow an operations manual as many christians do. And I often observe them doing it blindly, without letting their selves be the judge if something is moral or immoral.
And the state of the world has never been good. Human nature stands against it, since we're a competitive species. Also, when we look at history, religion has often been used to justify brutality. Given the contents of the holy books, it isn't that hard to find justifications for every kind of atrocity.