(April 22, 2015 at 12:36 am)dyresand Wrote: Well there is no good or bad reason to be a christian its all up to choice and your own reasoning.
There is more good reasons not to be a christian than not to be one i mean look at history.
In reality its all objective reasoning why or why not.
There is no good reason to hold any religion. Humans have a kneejerk reaction to that statement unfortunately. When you say that they get the stupid idea you are advocating use of force.
It is simply a statement that if you can accept you live without the god beliefs and religions of others then be willing to consider that yours is just as superfluous.
Religion exists because of our species gap filling. It has the placebo effect of creating safety in numbers, but it is only natural in that humans make bad guesses as to the nature of reality, it is a result of human's flawed perceptions.
Dawkins "The God Delusion" is an important book that explains why religion and god claims pop up. Victor Stenger's "The New Atheism" is under valued which is just as important in saying that our species morality is coming from us, not the labels humans invent.
And Hitchens got far to demonized by many skeptics for merely being blunt as to the dark side of what religion does to human thought. Dawkins also in "The Greatest Show On Earth" in his opening places blame on Plato's bad idea of "essence" in the idea if you just simply thought about something long enough you could find it's pure form. That idea since has infected humans who have tried to apply that utopian ideology to politics and religion and economic views, the problem is that we live in a diverse reality and an imperfect reality.
Not even atheists should go about trying to set up a utopia, but in saying that humans need to stop being afraid of letting go of the past. It is not a call to erase history, but to be unafraid to be introspective in considering maybe you don't need that past.
