(January 11, 2015 at 2:52 pm)dyresand Wrote:(January 11, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Brian37 Wrote: That is right religion is not harmless. Humans base their morality on religion and in turn affect politics and even control entire countries and have weapons. You cannot get rid of it, but to pretend it is harmless is dangerous. Religion must be treated as the weapon it is.
Pretty much its the worst weapon out there.
Well I often warn atheists not to go around treating a mere position as a moral code themselves. Even atheists are capable of holding bad ideas and 7 forming groups to promote those bad ideas. Ayn Rand certainly fucked up economic thought with "fuck you I got mine". And I have run into atheists who support Che as if you could rid a planet of 7 billion of the private sector, and also fail to realize that closed societies also invest in the global market.
There are attempts by atheists to form their own churches and while it seems harmless now, that is merely because they are in the minority status and are empathetic to that because they are living it right now. But if they turn the word "atheist" from a mere "off" position, into a moral code and mimic religion it can go on to become a religion, which it should not be treated as such.
Religion is anytime you treat something as group think as to be worshiped and blindly valued. The only thing that protects pluralism is common law, not clubs.
