"I don't want you or your family to go away violently, I just want them gone" "I don't want the hobby or occupation you love to go away with violence, I just want it gone"
Source? I don't think you can objectively prove that, and while some bad things have been done out of religious zealotry, many great things have been done out of faith. Heck, atheists have done terrible things as well. So how is it a poison?
anybody who seeks the greater good for humanity should be against the teachings that make people think irrationally and value their silly beliefs before the rights and lives of other people.
What? How is faith irrational? How is faith silly and how does it interfere with the rights of others?
You shouldn't teach children that gender is a construct, neither you should teach them that fairy tales are real and are the most important thing ever.
Do you think it is conducive to your argument by labeling religious beliefs as "fairy tales". It just shows immaturity and a lack of understanding and respect of the beliefs of the other person.
Quite the contrary, faith brings despair, terror, irrationality, absolutism and hate into people's lives. Go to any muslim country and see it for yourself.
Are you really using Islamic extremism as an example of the average religious person? Most muslims are not hateful people and neither are people of other faiths.
Faith is something that is generally beneficial to the adherent and society. By placing Something greater above them, there is less focus on the self. This can lead to some generosity and charity for our fellow man. For
example, religious people are more often to give to charity than others. Also, faith can give hope in an ultimate justice in a broken world. I personally had to watch as my father succumbed to sickness and pass. My faith gave him and my family strength in this tribulation. Despite being dead, he is not gone.
The more advanced countries in the world are the ones in which religion has been displaced, the more backward ones are those in which religion is everything. Coincidence? I don't think so
What do you mean? This is getting into subjective territory here. What you see as backwards may be seen as forwards to someone else. You need to set an objective basis for your claim and give me something concrete.
They were born without it, they could live a perfect life without knowing the existence of some magic invisible friend, like millions of other people do.
Again, do you think insulting the beliefs of the person you are speaking to will help them to see your side?
Also, there are some things that are indelible and cannot be removed, be it experiences or something else. Catholicism will always be a part of me even if I became an atheist. I have been raised as a catholic and understand our theology and way of life.
Yes, because they are fanatics.
Criticizing someone for making bad arguments against faith doesn't make one a fanatic.
He speaks on St. Thomas Aquinas "five ways" without really understanding it.
Thomas Aquinas` famous five proofs for the existence of God are among the most heavily debated and woefully misunderstood philosophical concepts in our modern age. In recent decades, they have formed a consistent basis for countless non-sequiturs and straw-man arguments against Christianity
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He has adressed it plenty of times. There's nothing magic or mysterious about people blindly believing whatever tale they tell themselves to feel better, it's a pretty clear and identified behaviour.
No he doesn't. He rarely if ever addresses the theology of the matter, why people believe these things. He just lumps them into "delusion" without getting into the meat of the matter.
Of course it's true, faith is the antagonist of reason. To have faith is to believe in irrationality.
No. They aren't enemies, science is the how and faith is the why. One can act rationally and have faith, you do realize there are scientists and doctors who are religious, correct? Many scientific discoveries were and are made by people who believe in God.
There's smart people who simply shutdown their beliefs when they are conducting tasks that require to be rational.
Proof? I find it insulting to insinuate that simply because someone may have a religious perspective that they would have to lie to themselves about that in order to complete a rational task.
Dawkins states that religions tend to fanatism, because their teachings are based on irrationality. The less religious a person is, the less chance that person becomes a fanatical.
The less religious people have become, the more have their societies advanced.
Sorry dude, it's maths.
Show me the "maths".
Also, you are being subjective again with advancement and I need an objective standard.
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provided only confirms what I said.
