Shit Atheist Say To Religious People

[Cholley71]

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I'm an atheist from Akron Ohio I graduated from North High School in 2011. I attend the University Of Akron for Electronic Engineering Tech. A lot of people ask me why do you always have to criticize religion and I'll respond by saying its the most harmful human invention in history. Religion was useful before the modern age. Human beings are naturally curious we like to find out about the world around us. The people who came up with religion used it to keep people in line and to have them not ask questions of the world around them. 1000 years ago we couldn't explain how "tide go in tides go out" and we came up with Poseidon the ocean god. But thankfully due to modern day science we know how "the tides go in tides go out" (unless your Bill O' Reilly).And like many things from the past Humans no longer find the necessity to need or use such as pay phones and VCR's, religion is one of those things that has outlived its necessity. And religion is fighting back to stay relevant in the 21st century such as tie dye shirts. And we see so many wars and atrocities happen due to people using the banner of religion. And they will respond back by saying atheist do bad things as well. And there right but they don't use there lack of belief as a justification to do bad. I think as a species of intelligent life in a vast universe we need to stop clinging to such primitive and irrational myths.

[Lucanus]

Welcome to the club buddy

[fr0d0]

Good example. Thanks

[Minimalist]

Religion was useful before the modern age.

It was no more useful then than it is now. Unless you think the provision of absurd answers is somehow "useful?"

It merely had less competition.

Welcome.

[KichigaiNeko]

[Cholley71]

Welcome to the club buddy

Thanks

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Religion was useful before the modern age.

It was no more useful then than it is now. Unless you think the provision of absurd answers is somehow "useful?"

It merely had less competition.

Welcome.

I understand where your coming from

[Terr]

People like to feel comfortable. Nothing like the possibility of an afterlife to get rid of that fear of dying. Religion, tells people that they're special and many people need that. Welcome to the site.

[Bad Writer]

Religion was useful before the modern age.

It was no more useful then than it is now. Unless you think the provision of absurd answers is somehow "useful?"

It merely had less competition.

Welcome.

Damn, I was actually going to point this out too, but you got here way ahead of me.

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And [the religious] will respond back by saying atheist do bad things as well. And there right but they don't use there lack of belief as a justification to do bad.

Let me make this clear: atheists have the same potential to do bad things that anyone else does, but these events are usually isolated events down on the individual level. You're right that their disbelief is generally not the causation of their crimes, but we also should rule that out entirely. Things are never just black and white.

One of the big things that the religious try to pin on us are the bad things Stalin did, since he was an atheist. Even though his atrocities were carried out on a nationwide scale, his behavior was still his own, and many other men and women in Russia should not be held responsible for their leader's actions, much less the modern atheist community. Also, it wasn't his atheism that drove him to these things: he was simply batshit crazy.