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Originally posted by OmegaPoint
The only thing I have against the no-God hypothesis, is that it does not make rational sense and is not logical.
Prot: Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.
Originally posted by Ferris.Bueller.II
I consider anyone who groups all people by single categories as not morally deficient, but more mentally deficient. This condition shows a real lack of understanding as to how complex a real person's beliefs and morality is, and how it shapes their personality.
Originally posted by The All Seeing I
Religion gives many people reason to hate homosexuals,
supporting harmful abstinence-only sex education,
to deny oneself a life-saving blood transfusion if the need arose,
to believe that women are a “weaker vessel” and are incapable of leading/guiding/instructing a male
or to encourage a lack of concern/responsibility for the planet due to a belief of a fast-approaching armageddon where/when God will come to clean house.
When you just lay out some of the basic facts... it's not hard to see the conspiracy/hypocrisy in religion.
Originally posted by asmeone2
reply to post by The All Seeing I
It doesn't matter what a person beleives, human nature always shines through, and usually for the worse.
That's why you have genocide perpetuated by virually any given group through history. Beleiver and athiest alike, sometimes factions of christians versus themselves, God and morals always go out the window when the right buttons are pushed.
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
I think the athiest has a very large blind spot regarding the possibility of an all powerful, all knowing and all loving God who is alive and self aware.
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
That said, God is something that cannot be fully understood...
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
...and allowing God to live through us in spirit.
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
I guess all I'm saying is why exclude God?
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
Have you heard the saying that the whole is greater than the sum of all the parts?
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
Why would I deny such a being his rightful place, and to who or what would I be grateful, for my existence and all that I receive ?
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
The atheist is entitled to their point of view (or lack thereof) certainly, but why they need to mock this God (ie: your signature) I do not understand.
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
P.S. I've often thought of Jesus Christ as the missing link and the "5th element".
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by The All Seeing I
Religion gives many people reason to hate homosexuals,
Are you suggesting there are no Homosexual hating atheists and that religious people can not love homosexuals just like anyone else?
Originally posted by ldyserenity
IMHO Nobody is morally superior to anybody, nobody is superior to anybody, except the divine being superior to humankind. This line of thinking on the part of religious leaders, government officials, even corporations, is the downfall of mankind. Anybody who feels superior in any way, are masters of oppression and destruction. This is why we are failing as a society!
Originally posted by Xtrozero
Originally posted by The All Seeing I
supporting harmful abstinence-only sex education,
Wow, hard to follow this one. In today’s world no sex is the safest, and you being the logical one should understand that.
Supporting abstinence is a choice just like anything else.
Most of the "straight edge" crowd I know are atheists, so I don’t think this is all religion…
Originally posted by Lightmare
Also, I have never met a Christian that would deny themself or anyone else a blood transfusion or other important medical attention if it was needed. Again, there are small fringe groups within the faith who might do that. But the majority of Christians do not subscribe to that school of thought.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
I take that one step farther. There is nobody/no thing that is morally superior to everybody else.
Ethically, however, we can look at prison populations and see that atheists are vastly under-represented in US jails. Cold numbers would certainly imply a certain conclusion.
Well for all that matter, so are pagans and wiccans vastly under represented in US jails (except those that belong to the bike gang, which really have no affilliation with the religion). So should I say that also pagans and wiccans are morally superior, no. What you wrote makes no sense.