RE: If everyone was atheist
June 23, 2015 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2015 at 6:53 am by robvalue.)
Indeed, the idea of personal responsibility is something religion is good at perverting. It's messed up that you can go apologise to an uninvolved and likely imaginary third party and expect all is well. Instead, you should apologise to the parties you actually wronged, make it up to them where possible, accept any relevant consequences and learn from the experience. If the end of organised religion means stopping this ridiculous workaround for dealing with guilt then that would be a good thing.
Also, any kind of victim blaming, which appears all over the place in many religions, is absolutely sick and we would be better off without it.
More and more, the liberal end of theists seem to pay lip service to all the hardcore stuff their religion demands while pretty much ignoring it in practice. I'm all for this. Hopefully the hardcore ones will eventually be replaced by more and more liberals, at least in places where ruthless indoctrination and enforcement by violence aren't taking place.
Also, any kind of victim blaming, which appears all over the place in many religions, is absolutely sick and we would be better off without it.
More and more, the liberal end of theists seem to pay lip service to all the hardcore stuff their religion demands while pretty much ignoring it in practice. I'm all for this. Hopefully the hardcore ones will eventually be replaced by more and more liberals, at least in places where ruthless indoctrination and enforcement by violence aren't taking place.
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