I'm an atheist, since like 11 years ago.
And I have looked at alot of atheists that are famous like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins etc etc. And I feel like I don't agree with them about religion.
This doesn't mean I am religious but I'm not as against religion as they are.
The point I want to get to is, that Richard Dawkins almost called is book "the root of all evil".
Sam Harris philosphy is that if you are religious you can't be a scientist cus the two things contradict each other.
Basically religion is in direct opposition with a functional society.
People blame it for persecution against homosexuality, strict abortion laws and terrorism.
My thoughts on religion are not that religion is a direct impossibility, you should be allowed to believe whatever you want and have whatever values you have, if you want to believe the earth is 6000 years old or whatever, Adam and Eve were the first humans etc.
You can do that.
If you want to be against abortion then you can be against abortion.
What I don't believe in is that everybody else in the world has to follow your own beliefs.
There are people who do not view the bible/tora/Koran as a holy book, they don't care about religious traditions and scriptures.
They are intolerant to religion but you have to be tolerant to that intolerance.
You can't expect other people to have the same values you have or believe in the same things just because those things are important to you.
Because this is the root of the mob mentality, where everybody has to respect your own sense of law and if you don't you have no value and all bets are off, this leads to terrorism and fear.
This is not a process unique to religion, and tha'ts my point, if you yanked out religion, I don't think that's a good thing, like society would prosper or whatever like they show in an episode of Family Guy.
All of the stuff you blame religion for are human things that can and will exist without religion.
I don't think the bible is the book of God, so being against homosexuality, is not something that was written by God.
You can say it's unnatural but the source of those opinions are humans.
So I think that religion is not a bad thing, even though I'm not religious myself, and religion is not some kind of scapegoat for all the bad things in society or something that can't work in a functional society.
And I have looked at alot of atheists that are famous like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins etc etc. And I feel like I don't agree with them about religion.
This doesn't mean I am religious but I'm not as against religion as they are.
The point I want to get to is, that Richard Dawkins almost called is book "the root of all evil".
Sam Harris philosphy is that if you are religious you can't be a scientist cus the two things contradict each other.
Basically religion is in direct opposition with a functional society.
People blame it for persecution against homosexuality, strict abortion laws and terrorism.
My thoughts on religion are not that religion is a direct impossibility, you should be allowed to believe whatever you want and have whatever values you have, if you want to believe the earth is 6000 years old or whatever, Adam and Eve were the first humans etc.
You can do that.
If you want to be against abortion then you can be against abortion.
What I don't believe in is that everybody else in the world has to follow your own beliefs.
There are people who do not view the bible/tora/Koran as a holy book, they don't care about religious traditions and scriptures.
They are intolerant to religion but you have to be tolerant to that intolerance.
You can't expect other people to have the same values you have or believe in the same things just because those things are important to you.
Because this is the root of the mob mentality, where everybody has to respect your own sense of law and if you don't you have no value and all bets are off, this leads to terrorism and fear.
This is not a process unique to religion, and tha'ts my point, if you yanked out religion, I don't think that's a good thing, like society would prosper or whatever like they show in an episode of Family Guy.
All of the stuff you blame religion for are human things that can and will exist without religion.
I don't think the bible is the book of God, so being against homosexuality, is not something that was written by God.
You can say it's unnatural but the source of those opinions are humans.
So I think that religion is not a bad thing, even though I'm not religious myself, and religion is not some kind of scapegoat for all the bad things in society or something that can't work in a functional society.