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Religion does not make people more morally righteous. It sometimes cuts people off from their innate or learned common sense morality by causing people to make guesses about what pleases certain all-powerful, or highly-powerful, nonhuman entities. At times, persons study their holy text of choice for quite awhile, and history and language from the time period it was written in to understand its context, and are quite likely to accurately understand what the holy text desires for them. Even in this case though, the morality of human beings and the morality of nonhuman dieties regularly are dissimilar. Would anyone like to dispute this?
To folk who disagree with this...remember that the atheists tend to swarm like piranas when they become stirred...just making sure you realize what you're getting into....There could very possibly be several atheists who more or less agree with the above statement.
Religion does not make people more morally righteous. It sometimes cuts people off from their innate or learned common sense morality by causing people to make guesses about what pleases certain all-powerful, or highly-powerful, nonhuman entities. At times, persons study their holy text of choice for quite awhile, and history and language from the time period it was written in to understand its context, and are quite likely to accurately understand what the holy text desires for them. Even in this case though, the morality of human beings and the morality of nonhuman dieties regularly are dissimilar. Would anyone like to dispute this?
To folk who disagree with this...remember that the atheists tend to swarm like piranas when they become stirred...just making sure you realize what you're getting into....There could very possibly be several atheists who more or less agree with the above statement.
This is a very delicate argument.... but nowaday we can talk about it
In fact it makes them worse. For they are not looking at their fellow man and thus society when only looking up for their imaginary god, trying to please only him in their selfish struggle to get their ticket to heaven validated.
Looking only up they step on many others, and are arrogant and selfish enough to just not give a damn.
Religion does not make people more morally righteous. It sometimes cuts people off from their innate or learned common sense morality by causing people to make guesses about what pleases certain all-powerful, or highly-powerful, nonhuman entities. At times, persons study their holy text of choice for quite awhile, and history and language from the time period it was written in to understand its context, and are quite likely to accurately understand what the holy text desires for them. Even in this case though, the morality of human beings and the morality of nonhuman dieties regularly are dissimilar. Would anyone like to dispute this?
To folk who disagree with this...remember that the atheists tend to swarm like piranas when they become stirred...just making sure you realize what you're getting into....There could very possibly be several atheists who more or less agree with the above statement.
No, religion doesn't make people better.
With some, it makes them rude, overbearing, obnoxious, holier than thou know it all's.
Of course this is my opinion but somehow, I don't think i'm alone here.
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Religion doesn't make people better
