RE: Hell and the Play Nice Christian
February 19, 2015 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 11:10 am by FatAndFaithless.)
(February 19, 2015 at 11:06 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(February 19, 2015 at 11:01 am)YGninja Wrote: No, the morality which God implanted into our hearts would have sprung up everywhere, and it has, and this is why Christianity has been accepted atleast to some degree neigh on everywhere it has been taught, because it resonates with what people instinctually feel. This is why the latest international studies from Oxford Uni have concluded that children left alone to develop on a desert island with no outside interference, would come to believe in God, while they would have to be taught atheism.
Citation seriously fucking needed.
I'd actually be willing to agree that a study like that is likely to exist (though in a much more coherent and less pulled-out-his-ass form, certainly not just 'dropping kids on a desert island'), but that just illustrates the process through which religions are started. Creating stories to explain unknown events and attributing them to higher beings is the modus operandi for fledgling religions. I don't know how YGninja thinks the Egyptian or Greek or Hindu pantheons started, but it's very much like people experiencing natural phenomena and, lacking sufficient explanation with the information we have nowadays, creating their 'best guess' usually illustrated through stories and myths.
YGninja's own points undercut his conclusions from the very start.
(Not even mentioning the tribes in South America that have no God concept at all)
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson