(November 8, 2017 at 4:34 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:(November 8, 2017 at 4:13 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Faith is not a virtue, it is indistinguishable from gullibility.
It as an excuse people use to describe a belief they have, when they have no good reason to believe it is true.
Faith is not a reliable path to truth, when it can lead 1.5 billion Muslims, 1.1 billion Hindus, 2 billion Christians, all to different, mutually exclusive, beliefs.
Please explain why you think faith is a good thing?
Of course I don't want to put a leash on religion. I want it to disappear based on the fact that it is not supported by evidence, logic and reasoned argument.
And it has not gone unnoticed that you did not respond to any of the real world negative consequences I listed in the post you are responding to.
Suicide, drugs and crime are popular. Believers preaching order trough fear isn't the worst stuff.
The ends justify the means, Huh?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
