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It seems various religions have a war against humanity going on. Christians slaughter unarmed people at clinics, Muslims slaughter unarmed people at concerts. The Jewish and Muslims in the middle east slaughter each other.
The Hindus seem to leave everyone alone.
Why are the three major religions continually used as justification for killing people. Its because each has a certain amount of power and each wants more of that power.
They are in every sense street gangs fighting over turf. They do drive-bys, they plan assassinations, they terrorize various segments of the human populations around them, they claim territory which has to be defended to the last drop of blood. Whenever one of their members kills someone the membership is quick to defend their actions as 'justified'.
If the gods of these various religions approve of the slaughter of unarmed innocents then these gods need to be tossed on the dung heap and new ones conjured up. The current lineup is the disease, not the cure.
It seems various religions have a war against humanity going on. Christians slaughter unarmed people at clinics, Muslims slaughter unarmed people at concerts. The Jewish and Muslims in the middle east slaughter each other.
The Hindus seem to leave everyone alone.
Why are the three major religions continually used as justification for killing people. Its because each has a certain amount of power and each wants more of that power.
They are in every sense street gangs fighting over turf. They do drive-bys, they plan assassinations, they terrorize various segments of the human populations around them, they claim territory which has to be defended to the last drop of blood. Whenever one of their members kills someone the membership is quick to defend their actions as 'justified'.
If the gods of these various religions approve of the slaughter of unarmed innocents then these gods need to be tossed on the dung heap and new ones conjured up. The current lineup is the disease, not the cure.
Nothing new.....I'm 81 years old and some of that has been going on all my life. What amazes me is that people can be so serious over an idea. That's all religion is, an idea....a bad idea but an idea:
Bill Maher: Religion is why “people who ‘always acted normal’ drop a baby off to go to a massacre”
It seems various religions have a war against humanity going on. Christians slaughter unarmed people at clinics, Muslims slaughter unarmed people at concerts. The Jewish and Muslims in the middle east slaughter each other.
The Hindus seem to leave everyone alone.
Why are the three major religions continually used as justification for killing people. Its because each has a certain amount of power and each wants more of that power.
They are in every sense street gangs fighting over turf. They do drive-bys, they plan assassinations, they terrorize various segments of the human populations around them, they claim territory which has to be defended to the last drop of blood. Whenever one of their members kills someone the membership is quick to defend their actions as 'justified'.
If the gods of these various religions approve of the slaughter of unarmed innocents then these gods need to be tossed on the dung heap and new ones conjured up. The current lineup is the disease, not the cure.
Nothing new.....I'm 81 years old and some of that has been going on all my life. What amazes me is that people can be so serious over an idea. That's all religion is, an idea....a bad idea but an idea:
Bill Maher: Religion is why “people who ‘always acted normal’ drop a baby off to go to a massacre”
81 years old? ... hmm ... So what do you say why the religious ideas of Mahatma Gandhi were bad ideas? What were better alternatives?
It seems various religions have a war against humanity going on. Christians slaughter unarmed people at clinics, Muslims slaughter unarmed people at concerts. The Jewish and Muslims in the middle east slaughter each other.
The Hindus seem to leave everyone alone.
Why are the three major religions continually used as justification for killing people. Its because each has a certain amount of power and each wants more of that power.
They are in every sense street gangs fighting over turf. They do drive-bys, they plan assassinations, they terrorize various segments of the human populations around them, they claim territory which has to be defended to the last drop of blood. Whenever one of their members kills someone the membership is quick to defend their actions as 'justified'.
If the gods of these various religions approve of the slaughter of unarmed innocents then these gods need to be tossed on the dung heap and new ones conjured up. The current lineup is the disease, not the cure.
Nothing new.....I'm 81 years old and some of that has been going on all my life. What amazes me is that people can be so serious over an idea. That's all religion is, an idea....a bad idea but an idea:
Bill Maher: Religion is why “people who ‘always acted normal’ drop a baby off to go to a massacre”
Come on now. Plenty of religious people are bigots. Whether you're religious or not, people have biases. It's human experience.In order to justify what deserves to be called "anti Christian bigotry" atheists blame religion for wars. Throughout history wars have been fought over natural resources and to collect tribute, On fairly rare occasions religion has justified wars fought for national aggrandizement. The Spaniards converted the Indians they conquered. They were mainly interested in taking the gold of the Aztecs and Incas.
The only wars I can think of that were fought for religion rather than resources were the Crusades. The Crusades were provoked by Muslim interference with Christian pilgrimages to Christian holy sites. I regret the atrocities committed by Christian solders. Those were standard operating procedure at the time. I also regret the anti Jewish pogroms. Otherwise, I think the Crusades were justified,
I have read that during the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century as much as ten percent of the world's population, and thirty percent of the Chinese population was killed. The Mongols were in no way motivated by religion.
Neither were the ancient civilizations of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Macedonians, and the Romans. Even King David had no intention of forcing the Israelite religion on the small number of nations he conquered.
Religion was not a motive in the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, and the two World Wars.
The Nazis and the Communists were motivated by atheist ideologies, not religion.
I have read the major writings of each of the world's great religions.
In the Old Testament war is only commanded to enable the Israelites to conquer and hold onto the fairly small land of Israel. Nothing in the New Testament commands or authorizes war.
The Koran does command war to spread Islam. This is an exception among the writings of the great religions. Even the Koran commands charity for the poor. So does the Bible, far more frequently than it condemns homosexuality.
If one believes in innate human benevolence, one may be inclined to blame the obvious lack of universal human benevolence on an outside force, like religion. I am pessimistic about human nature. I see the religions as forces that encourage people to behave better than they otherwise would,
I cannot prove that Christianity is true. My impression of atheists who feel hostility toward Christianity, instead of indifference, is that they resent the Christian insistence on chastity.
Come on now. Plenty of religious people are bigots. Whether you're religious or not, people have biases. It's human experience.In order to justify what deserves to be called "anti Christian bigotry" atheists blame religion for wars. Throughout history wars have been fought over natural resources and to collect tribute, On fairly rare occasions religion has justified wars fought for national aggrandizement. The Spaniards converted the Indians they conquered. They were mainly interested in taking the gold of the Aztecs and Incas.
The only wars I can think of that were fought for religion rather than resources were the Crusades. The Crusades were provoked by Muslim interference with Christian pilgrimages to Christian holy sites. I regret the atrocities committed by Christian solders. Those were standard operating procedure at the time. I also regret the anti Jewish pogroms. Otherwise, I think the Crusades were justified,
I have read that during the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century as much as ten percent of the world's population, and thirty percent of the Chinese population was killed. The Mongols were in no way motivated by religion.
Neither were the ancient civilizations of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Macedonians, and the Romans. Even King David had no intention of forcing the Israelite religion on the small number of nations he conquered.
Religion was not a motive in the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, and the two World Wars.
The Nazis and the Communists were motivated by atheist ideologies, not religion.
I have read the major writings of each of the world's great religions.
In the Old Testament war is only commanded to enable the Israelites to conquer and hold onto the fairly small land of Israel. Nothing in the New Testament commands or authorizes war.
The Koran does command war to spread Islam. This is an exception among the writings of the great religions. Even the Koran commands charity for the poor. So does the Bible, far more frequently than it condemns homosexuality.
If one believes in innate human benevolence, one may be inclined to blame the obvious lack of universal human benevolence on an outside force, like religion. I am pessimistic about human nature. I see the religions as forces that encourage people to behave better than they otherwise would,
I cannot prove that Christianity is true. My impression of atheists who feel hostility toward Christianity, instead of indifference, is that they resent the Christian insistence on chastity.
Atheism isn't the cause of war. Usually, war is about resources, and tribalism. Religion is usually misused in tribal warfare.
Consider Sri Lanka. Tribes dividing up by Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
I cannot prove that Christianity is true. My impression of atheists who feel hostility toward Christianity, instead of indifference, is that they resent the Christian insistence on chastity.
The Holy Spirit placed within Mary's womb that seed which would become Christ. There was no sexual activity involved. It is a wonderful thing to understand that God became human to save those who accept Him. GOD knows what it is like to be human. He actually lived among us for a time. CHRIST created Adam and Eve without parents. GOD created a Universe. I really don't understand your lack of comprehension?I cannot prove that Christianity is true. My impression of atheists who feel hostility toward Christianity, instead of indifference, is that they resent the Christian insistence on chastity.
lol...My impression is that unbelievers are just as indifferent to Christian insistence on chastity, as are most people who identify themselves as Christians.
I would think that some Christians make themselves a target of hostility whenever they attempt to usurp places of moral and legal authority over everyone else to change laws and customs to reflect their perverse opinions based solely on their professed belief in the teachings of an ancient book that they do not understand and how well they can act by making the ridiculous assertion that they believe that God diddled a virgin to become fully human without a human father with a straight face...
The Holy Spirit placed within Mary's womb that seed which would become Christ. There was no sexual activity involved. It is a wonderful thing to understand that God became human to save those who accept Him. GOD knows what it is like to be human. He actually lived among us for a time. CHRIST created Adam and Eve without parents. GOD created a Universe. I really don't understand your lack of comprehension?
Is religion the only institutional reason people kill each other ?
I don't think that is correct.
WWII wasn't started over religion (of which I am aware).
And we would not have been so fast to bail out Kuwait if it were not for OIL.
Seems humans can always find a reason to kill another human.
Religion can be said to be a part of all wars as it separates humans into different religious sects who all hate each other and think everyone else is wrong. So the initial partition of any territory is done along religious lines, like the US, where Christians took the country by force.
It has nothing to do with religious identity and everything to do with the nature of conquest.
None of these people did it for atheism. You lose again.Again, where currently do you see atheists picking up assault rifles and murdering people to force their non-belief in a supernatural being on anyone?
Since Atheists don't believe in "supernatural beings" I've removed that parameter of your question.
Here are a few of many examples:
You constantly claim shit that isn't proven. The gunman in Oregon asked people what religion they were and if they said Christian he shot them dead. Any other religion, he shot them in the leg. Sounds like he simply hates Organized Christianity. So not an atheist. You lose AGAIN!
As for all those other shooters, there is no mention of them doing it for atheism, so you lose AGAIN!!
In order to justify what deserves to be called "anti Christian bigotry" atheists blame religion for wars. Throughout history wars have been fought over natural resources and to collect tribute, On fairly rare occasions religion has justified wars fought for national aggrandizement. The Spaniards converted the Indians they conquered. They were mainly interested in taking the gold of the Aztecs and Incas.
The only wars I can think of that were fought for religion rather than resources were the Crusades. The Crusades were provoked by Muslim interference with Christian pilgrimages to Christian holy sites. I regret the atrocities committed by Christian solders. Those were standard operating procedure at the time. I also regret the anti Jewish pogroms. Otherwise, I think the Crusades were justified,
I have read that during the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century as much as ten percent of the world's population, and thirty percent of the Chinese population was killed. The Mongols were in no way motivated by religion.
Neither were the ancient civilizations of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Macedonians, and the Romans. Even King David had no intention of forcing the Israelite religion on the small number of nations he conquered.
Religion was not a motive in the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, and the two World Wars.
The Nazis and the Communists were motivated by atheist ideologies, not religion.
I have read the major writings of each of the world's great religions.
In the Old Testament war is only commanded to enable the Israelites to conquer and hold onto the fairly small land of Israel. Nothing in the New Testament commands or authorizes war.
The Koran does command war to spread Islam. This is an exception among the writings of the great religions. Even the Koran commands charity for the poor. So does the Bible, far more frequently than it condemns homosexuality.
If one believes in innate human benevolence, one may be inclined to blame the obvious lack of universal human benevolence on an outside force, like religion. I am pessimistic about human nature. I see the religions as forces that encourage people to behave better than they otherwise would,
I cannot prove that Christianity is true. My impression of atheists who feel hostility toward Christianity, instead of indifference, is that they resent the Christian insistence on chastity.
But as I said earlier....there is what you use to justify going to war and then there is the actual reason you go to war. I would argue that the Crusades were far less about religion and far more about economics
