- Sometimes people who are lost in life find their way.
- These people could not have known the right way on their own.
- These people were shown the right way by something or someone other than themselves (from 2).
- There was no person showing them the way.
- god…
Source: uncompromising-rhetoric
People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such…
Source: divineirony
Would be better without it.
Yes, let’s.
If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn’t make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.~Sam Harris: 10 MYTHS—AND 10 TRUTHS—ABOUT ATHEISM
(via skepticalavenger)
Source: divineirony
You won’t see it coming…
I don’t think it means what you think it means.
It is indeed.
Why it sucks to be a doctor treating religious person…
