Quote:
Originally Posted by Thebigyin04
well thats fine then u have answered what i have tried to find out , that YOU think religion is wrong .. beacause you thinking religion is wrong and religion actually being wrong , are not one in the same .
|
I think my reasons for thinking religion is wrong are pretty comprehensive. Throughout this thread the 'faithful' have repeatedly failed to counter these points (and many others).
Do you have any persuasive arguments for religion NOT being wrong?
At this moment religion is causing Pakistan to teeter on the edge of civil war, religion is causing ministers in Afghanistan to be blown up, religion is causing Iraq to be practically in a state of civil war, religion is causing mothers to sacrifice their lives for no reason, religion is convincing Pro-lifers that the life on an adult abortion doctor is worth less than a blastocyst, religion is keeping millions upon millions of people from accepting how AMAZING it is to be alive now - making them think that a shit life now is ok as they'll be getting rewarded AFTER their deaths!
And you think that it's just an issue of one 'opinion' against another? Religion served it's purpose, it explained the world to primitive, uneducated masses in the past. But compare the level of knowledge of even the wisest man 1000 years ago to the level of understanding a 10 year old has in our modern world; a
child would laugh at what was once seen as the upper limits of human knowledge!
What seemed reasonable to our ancestors does not automatically become reasonable in the modern world just because it is old! You wouldn't accept a doctor who didn't accept Germ Theory coming to operate on a loved one would you? Of course not, you'd ask to speak to someone who had knowledge of modern medical techniques and practices. Why then should we accept people basing their
entire lives around books written 2 millennia ago? In ANY other area of life it would be seen as insanity, and dangerous insanity at that.
The onus is on the 'faithful' to provide a valid reason to believe, to supply a copper bottomed validation of their beliefs....something that can robustly deflect the overwhelming tidal wave of scientific evidence. This is something they have routinely and repeatedly failed to do.
So, tell me why you think I'm wrong.