RE: I was on the atheist experience :)
March 16, 2016 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2016 at 1:37 pm by Brian37.)
I always like to remind everyone, we mainly debate Christianity because that is what we deal with the most in the west.
It still remains that EVERY religion starts at the top as an Umbrella label, under which there are countless sub sects with different ideas of how to live that religion and interpret it's writings. Every single religion also point to the motifs and stories that depict acts of kindness and charity, they all have their own versions. But there has never been or ever will be a perfect religion that is unifying, even within it's sub sects.
I is also why I highly recommend Victor Stenger's book "The New Atheism" in which later chapters he points out all the overlapping motifs of the word's major religions. He does this to point out to us that we need to consider that our morality as a species is not in the books themselves, but in our evolution.
Not even the word "atheist" should be treated as a moral code. I have run into atheists I do not agree with on such issues as economic views, guns or how to deal with theists. Not even we should think of ourselves as sheep. Humans will always form groups and on a planet of 7 billion, there is no such thing as a utopia, for anyone.
But, while human rights are a given, the claim itself should never be scrutiny or blasphemy free.
It still remains that EVERY religion starts at the top as an Umbrella label, under which there are countless sub sects with different ideas of how to live that religion and interpret it's writings. Every single religion also point to the motifs and stories that depict acts of kindness and charity, they all have their own versions. But there has never been or ever will be a perfect religion that is unifying, even within it's sub sects.
I is also why I highly recommend Victor Stenger's book "The New Atheism" in which later chapters he points out all the overlapping motifs of the word's major religions. He does this to point out to us that we need to consider that our morality as a species is not in the books themselves, but in our evolution.
Not even the word "atheist" should be treated as a moral code. I have run into atheists I do not agree with on such issues as economic views, guns or how to deal with theists. Not even we should think of ourselves as sheep. Humans will always form groups and on a planet of 7 billion, there is no such thing as a utopia, for anyone.
But, while human rights are a given, the claim itself should never be scrutiny or blasphemy free.
