At the "National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance," Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger called for a purge of non-believers from the government
Again, I respectfully disagree. Peace and understanding are not at the core of the Christian religion, it’s merely a pretense.
The bible says nothing against slavery, it calls for the death of homosexuals, it condones genocide in the name of their deity. It’s a weak, diffuse collection of ancient myths and stories brimming with questionable morals that are incompatible with humanistic values.
Christians have always been cherry picking their morals from the bible according to what suited them best at the time.
Every progress mankind has made during the past centuries towards enlightenment has been consistently opposed by the church and thus, by the people following what the church preached (just saying this because so many apologists claim only institutional religion is to blame). Still happens today - you will find most homophobic, racist and evil people are religious, while humanists are generally irreligious.
Claiming these wicked people are not the way they are because of their religion is failing to acknowledge the fundamental problem with religion as a whole - at its core lies a monumental intellectual dishonesty, because it’s all about accepting the claim of god’s existence without any evidence whatsoever. And people willing to accept unproven claims and who are able to lie to themselves in such a huge way are also very much able to tell themselves they’re just doing good while committing unspeakable crimes.
Nope. These people are true Christians. They follow their holy book to the best of their ability and they do follow the teachings of Christ.
Again, I respectfully disagree. Peace and understanding are not at the core of the Christian religion, it’s merely a pretense.
The bible says nothing against slavery, it calls for the death of homosexuals, it condones genocide in the name of their deity. It’s a weak, diffuse collection of ancient myths and stories brimming with questionable morals that are incompatible with humanistic values.
Christians have always been cherry picking their morals from the bible according to what suited them best at the time. Every progress mankind has made during the past centuries towards enlightenment has been consistently opposed by the church and thus, by the people following what the church preached (just saying this because so many apologists claim only institutional religion is to blame). Still happens today - you will find most homophobic, racist and evil people are religious, while humanists are generally irreligious.
Claiming these wicked people are not the way they are because of their religion is failing to acknowledge the fundamental problem with religion as a whole - at its core lies a monumental intellectual dishonesty, because it’s all about accepting the claim of god’s existence without any evidence whatsoever. And people willing to accept unproven claims and who are able to lie to themselves in such a huge way are also very much able to tell themselves they’re just doing good while committing unspeakable crimes.
Nope. These people are true Christians. They follow their holy book to the best of their ability and they do follow the teachings of Christ.
True. but if we expect them to tolerate us we must tolerate them as long as they are not doing any harm.