(January 7, 2015 at 9:04 pm)100 Years of Solitude Wrote:(January 7, 2015 at 8:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Bullshit, there is no such thing as a utopia and to think we can have an all atheist world is just as absurd.
Humans will always make absurd claims and have bad ideas. And there are even atheists I would not trust with power.
The best we can do as a species is to keep it on a leash.
I'm not defending that immorality is limited to religious people, it's part of the human condition. That would be hypocritical to say.
What i'm saying is that they are following literally the sacred Book, which if you ever read promotes a Holy War against anyone who does not share their beliefs. Same thing for the Crusades hundreds of years before.
I have gotten raked over the coals by other atheists by agreeing with Hitchens in calling religion poison. But even in saying that you have to be realistic about what can be practically done.
You cannot use a Bobcat to remove a volcano, you have to accept that that volcano will always be there. You can however, study it so that when it does rumble you can get out of the way.
You will never force religion out of existence. You can blaspheme, ridicule and or debate, but you will never be able to get all 7 billion humans on the same page.