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Religious intolerance 'new racism'?
what do you have to say?
what do you have to say?
Yes religious intolerance in contemporary Australian society is just as damaging as racism has been to humanity in the past and the religious suffer greatly in our current society.Religious intolerance 'new racism'?
what do you have to say?
Doesn't work like that: just about all religions claim that, unless you change to their religion, you're in for suffering. And lets face it, even atheism is along similar lines (many athiests think that thiests as a group are gullible retards and thus, them being good is a waste of time and effort). Therefore they will try and stop them, if they care for them.there is no doubt that religious intolerance exists, but often its in the form of one religious nut dissing another religious nut. If people just shut up and kept their religion or faith to themselves, which is how it should be practised, none of this would occur.
This isn't necessarily religious vs. non-religious. It also encompasses religious vs. other religious vs. non religious. I get bagged out big time predominantly by one person because I'm Christian and that guy's a Hindu.LOL
so basically 12% of the world's population are oppressing the other 88%?
hahahahahaha
True, only majorities can be bigots. Fucking asian fucks, they don't assimilate, they form gangs and ghettos etc etc. See no racism.LOL
so basically 12% of the world's population are oppressing the other 88%?
hahahahahaha
(many athiests think that thiests as a group are gullible retards and
thus, them being good is a waste of time and effort)
atheism is not about stopping people from 'being good'. religion encompasses some very good morals that all sane atheists would respect. it's the reason people behave this way that is concerning - there is something wrong with ONLY 'being good' TO avoid hell/enter heaven. 'being good' for the sake of 'being good' (ie. for society, for others) is a better way of living as oposed to only being good to others for personal religious reasons.Doesn't work like that: just about all religions claim that, unless you change to their religion, you're in for suffering. And lets face it, even atheism is along similar lines (many athiests think that thiests as a group are gullible retards and thus, them being good is a waste of time and effort). Therefore they will try and stop them, if they care for them.
More correctly, racism and other associated "group dividers" - religion, customs, lol even hairstyle - are a cultural expression of biological xenophobia, as a function of parochial altruism.Racism is biological you stupid fuck, you can't change it.
If an idiot chooses to believe in a sky fairy I sure as fucking hell can all them out on it because there's no rational reason in the entire world to believe a magical wizard does everything
All I know is that that tattoo is shit.ugh morality is a load of shit regardless of whether god exists because there is no presupposition-free 'ought', end of story.
We have evolved to have a subjective sense of justice. I inherently feel that murder is 'wrong' because, in the times of my distant ancestors, if murder happened very often then the chances of myself or other people in my tribe (upon whom my subsistence depended) dying would be large, and hence those who were opposed to murder were more likely to survive and contribute to the next generation's gene pool.
Religious "morality" (and pretty much all morality for that matter) is merely just an intellectual manifestation of this sense of justice. It's just a way of trying to prove that your sense of justice is "right" and being able to tell people why they should follow it.
Killing people is wrong?
Why?
um...
ah! because of god!
With religious morality its either this, or something that they believe will be good for society e.g. self-restraint etc
If you told the average idiot that murder is "immoral" they will pretty much ALL agree with you, even though they are likely to be philosophic illiterates. They are inherently are opposed to murder. this is why it is so easy for people to accept religious morality; not because of the supposed brilliance of god, but because religion just moulds itself around our natural concepts of good or right, and like I said when this isn't the case it is the result of some concept about the need to control society, but this is a load of shit because order is emergent.
Disagree with his point you idiot.All I know is that that tattoo is shit.
So cold, so mechanical. Be silent and rid us of ghostly lies. Every time you speak a fairy dies.ugh morality is a load of shit regardless of whether god exists because there is no presupposition-free 'ought', end of story.
We have evolved to have a subjective sense of justice. I inherently feel that murder is 'wrong' because, in the times of my distant ancestors, if murder happened very often then the chances of myself or other people in my tribe (upon whom my subsistence depended) dying would be large, and hence those who were opposed to murder were more likely to survive and contribute to the next generation's gene pool.
Religious "morality" (and pretty much all morality for that matter) is merely just an intellectual manifestation of this sense of justice. It's just a way of trying to prove that your sense of justice is "right" and being able to tell people why they should follow it.
Killing people is wrong?
Why?
um...
ah! because of god!
With religious morality its either this, or something that they believe will be good for society e.g. self-restraint etc
If you told the average idiot that murder is "immoral" they will pretty much ALL agree with you, even though they are likely to be philosophic illiterates. They are inherently opposed to murder. this is why it is so easy for people to accept religious morality; not because of the supposed brilliance of god, but because religion just moulds itself around our natural concepts of good or right, and like I said when this isn't the case it is the result of some concept about the need to control society, but this is a load of shit because order is emergent.