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Originally posted by beautiful player
I cannot respect such beliefs.
- Religion has been, and continues to be, responsible for countless horrors throughout human history.
- For all the problems we face as a society, many theists choose not only to do nothing to help, but actually engage in sabotage by actively preventing solutions from being instigated, usually by supporting irrational political positions e.g. stem-cell research, contraception, women's rights, sexual equality and even global warming.
- Belief in God taps into mankind's natural tendency to defer moral decision making to authority figures (including priests, prophets, holy books, popes, ayatollahs and imams). Acting out 'God's plan' or 'God's will' is a sure-fire way to absolve one's-self of responsibility for one's actions.
- As a functional member of society it benefits everyone if your decision making process is founded on evidence and reason, not superstition. Faith isn't a virtue; it is the glorification of voluntary ignorance.
- Religious superstition erects an absolute monarchy in a person's mind. It teaches us to be satisfied with with not understanding the world and represents a surrendering to ignorance under the pretension of 'divine knowledge'.
Also, what kind of logical fallacy. I suggest you watch this video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wV_REEdvxo |
Sorry, but these arguments are heavily prejudiced and just nitpicking the drawbacks of religion while refusing to acknowledge or purposely ignoring the good things it brought to the world.
Some religious people are idly reliant to wishful thinking. Some are destructive terrorists. Some are productively helpful stewards. The effect of religion to every person is not always the same and negative.
Organized religions throughout history have been the primary source of objective morality. Every civilization in the past was built upon the moral foundation of its religion. Even the legal foundation of the west was derived from religion. From where do you think the concepts of secularism, freedom of religion, the three branches of the government and many other legal concepts and principles that are being used today had their origin?
Not all religions/religious denominations are the same. Christianity, for instance, does not teach its adherrents to "be satisfied with not understanding the world." There is nothing in the catechism of the Catholic Church that prevents academic research. Quite the reverse. The Catholic Church was the
biggest patron of science and continues to fund, sponsor and support scientific research in the
Pontifical Academy of Sciences (which is one of the most prestigious international scientific organizations) and in the departments of science found in every Catholic university across the world.
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But you also have to understand the other side of the argument and see why it's difficult for other people to believe and accept some of the things you do.
