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Originally Posted by Cheese
It doesnt have to be me thats persecuted. There are millions of cases of atrocities by the Christian faith, so many in fact that without these happening it would be highly likely you wouldn't even know about Christianity other than from your history class.
Why should we perpetuate a lie?
Some of the atrocities
oh and...Dawkins speaks the facts, thats what pisses off the Christians, they have no answers for him, so the best thing that they can offer is "he is an atheist zealot" or evangelical atheist. We need thousands more just like him, and we are getting them. |
What lie are we perpetuating. I don't think anyone is in denial about the past attrocities of church's.
Are the attrocities you refer to in the link actual products of the religion itself or are they means of enforcing political control over a group of people through fear and violence.
The crusades is one of the best examples. They had nothing to do with religion. These were political wars. Religion was used to get people to sign up but those at the top weren't fighting for God.
The one thing I do agree with Dawkins is that organized religion's heirarchy does cause problems with the world but instead of Dawkins attacking the institutuions directly he attacks the individual who believe. Even on that front Dawkins wasn't the first to attack organized religion. Jesus started that right from the start attacking the Sadducies and Pharisies.