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Re: Not in our name: Dawkins dresses up bigotry as non-belief -
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, August 9 2013, 17:57:08 (UTC)
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,,,,excellent and about time. All religions, as we have shown here repeatedly, are not equally bad...one is demonstrably worse than the rest and that one is Christianity.....Islam's purported evils come nowhere near as close. Again; add up those killed by Christians in the last 200 years to those killed by Muslims and go figure.

" Religion can be used to justify anything: and, in practice, it has."

...it CAN be used so, but it is false to do so. You need no justification for good...everyone recognizes it when they see, hear or feel it...it needs nothing to justify it....but religion's main purpose is to excuse evil or, as I prefer, gross wrongs. Hitchens made this point brilliantly when he challenged all of his audiences to think of just one act that he, along with any religious person, could do that would be agreed to be "good"...and then imagine what acts religion approves of that ONLY the religious would do...acts often considered illegal by civil society...there is nothing.

...Hitchens wouldn't rape someone and neither would most religious people...Hitchens wouldn't cut the living flesh from a boy baby's penis, but a religious person WOULD! That is the difference. It needs no justification for good, you don't rape and you don't snip because it causes pain and you wouldn't want it done to you. But you would snip if you are religious because then the pain inflicted is OK and also you're okay with it having been done to you, even though you don't remember the pain, but you're OK with inflicting it on the NEXT child, even your own...you need religion when you want to do BAD and need a God to approve, even order, it.



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