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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Those are acts of atonement for acts that the individual recently carried out. They’ve not collective acts of atonement for acts a community carried out in the past.
The irony I’m pointing out is people who express contempt for religion turning around and calling for their community to carry out essentially religious acts.
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This is not irony. Nor is it remotely unusual or humourous for a group of people to promote a positive Judeo-Christian value while criticizing the church or the concept of modern religion as a whole.
Judeo-Christian religions promote plenty of positive values, many of which society as a whole, even those who are not part of those religions, have adopted.
This is a weird, embarrassing attempt at a gotchya, when the actual irony is that in your attempt to prove we owe our moral goodness to religion, you've proved that modern moral goodness is no longer dependent on the belief in God or the following of religion.