RE: Something about killing in the name of atheism
April 13, 2015 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2015 at 10:38 am by Homeless Nutter.
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(April 12, 2015 at 10:19 am)Dystopia Wrote: [...]
Conclusion - Believing in god is as hazardous to oneself as a lack of thereof, it's what we do after that affects our actions. Am I wrong?
You are wrong. Kind of.
Belief in god is more hazardous than lack thereof. Why? Because there are great many mutually exclusive versions of belief. There is only one lack of belief. Sure - people would be fighting over all sorts of things, but if we all agreed that we don't believe in any gods - that's one discussion over and one major reason for war gone.
Alternatively - we could all agree on existence of just one version of god - but which one? Since no religion has any evidence for their particular interpretation being correct and none of the religious leaders are willing to give up power over their "flocks", believers will always be killing each other (as they always have), even if we all agreed, that there is a god.
No religion - no holy war. Sure, there would be other kinds of war, just as there are now. But one kind less would be an improvement - however small (and in my opinion it would be a fairly substantial one).
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
