(January 11, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(January 11, 2015 at 10:49 am)fr0d0 Wrote: In short, the western justice system appears to be based upon religion.
... which is why we stone adulteresses and kill gays, right?
Dishonest and ignorant is a shitty way to live, lad.
Like it or not, our western culture IS influenced by christianity. I'm certain you had atleast one ancestor who was christian.
Ironically the Christian world was the first to fight for human rights.
Don't take offense but I think you guys are too rigid in your view of religion. Yes it has been used to justify wrongs but it isn't all bad.
In my opinion viewing it as purely evil isn't a good way to look at things in the world. The church is responsible for the operation of various orphanages, schools, hospitals, charities and the largest private healthcare financing in the world. And it's been doing the same since the beginning, even during the plague.
So no . . . This doesn't cancel out the bad, but please don't have such a narrow view of anything. I feel people will be happier if they let go of what some institutions did in the past and accept that everything has good and bad traits. I don't think that if the Europeans of the 18th century were atheists slavery wouldn't have happened. In my opinion their excuse for slavery would've been survival of the fittest.
So my point is . . . Just chill the hell out and be cool
