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Originally Posted by GGG
Do you know what bugs me about these evangelical Athiests. Its that they won't let us crazy christians have our beliefs.
You know what we all know if you use only logic and reason and the scientific method that religion doesn't make sense. We don't care. We have developed a system of belief that gives us comfort and enjoyment in our lives. What is it that athiests find so threatening about this.
The answer always is that organized religion is a scourge and the organized religion is at fault for all of the worlds problems. While this may be true the individual religious person who gets lambasted by athiests has no control over what the top of the religion does. It is like holding a low level BP employee responsible for the oil spill just because they work there.
Beyond that organzied religion is used as a means of control. In the past we have had Nationalism, Racism, Communism and so on have all been used as a means to control people and deliver power to a small group of people. So if you got rid of religion and left the poverty in this world in place other means of control would develop that would give hope to the oppressed. The real solution to the moderation of religion is to lift people out of poverty. The attacking mentality of the evangelical athiests only serves to piss off moderates and galvanize the zealots. It may convert those on the fringe but they aren't the problem and the more you remove the moderates from the fold the more extreme the religion will become.
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Fantastic post. Not too dissimilar from Nero blaming the fire of Rome on all the Christians and having them randomly burned at the stake.
We speak out against being racist and being mad at all Asians because some of them are bad drivers. But because organized religion is supposedly responsible for all the world's problems, we don't miss a chance to make fun of the next guy's religious beliefs because they aren't completely atheistic.
I'm likely being way too melodramatic here, but you have to admit this is true to some degree. Frankly, I think the incessant bashing gets in the way of what is some awesome discussions on religion both on this forum and in general.