Re: Religion and Atheism
I'm jumping in here not having read the last few pages, but I agree with this...
A lot of evil has been done in the name of religion. It is used as just one more way to create differences between people. It's a lot easier to hurt others, especially face to face, when you can dehumanize them. Religious belief is another way to see someone as sufficiently different from oneself thus making it easier to commit acts of violence against them.
That said, I think if there was no religion, we'd find just another reason to justify acts of violence and aggression toward others and different bases on which to create our "in-group."
This is all over the place. The fact that there are created elements doesn't mean much. I suggest actually looking at what those elements are and how they act because they only exist a very short period of time after being created precisely for that reason. There's no created element that we can make and release that continues to exist. That's really neither here nor there though...I can create a pie too, but I fail to see how that supports "Intelligent" Design/Creationism. And the alternative is not exactly that everything came from nothing. Science doesn't have all of the answers to all questions and it's okay with that because if it did our work would be done already. We are still figuring out what happened within the tiniest fractions of seconds following the big bang. We don't know what was there right before it. Don't know yet is different from thinking there was nothing there. It's easy to misrepresent and twist something in order to disagree with it, but if what you were doing was truly a critical thinking exercise and an effort at applying reason to evaluate the arguments and see which is the better supported view, then you'd put forth the effort to understand both sides and look at strengths and weaknesses of each rather than only the one you set out to knock-down because that would allow bias to trump reason.
Originally posted by Haykakan
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A lot of evil has been done in the name of religion. It is used as just one more way to create differences between people. It's a lot easier to hurt others, especially face to face, when you can dehumanize them. Religious belief is another way to see someone as sufficiently different from oneself thus making it easier to commit acts of violence against them.
That said, I think if there was no religion, we'd find just another reason to justify acts of violence and aggression toward others and different bases on which to create our "in-group."
Originally posted by KanadaHye
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