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beam me up scottie

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11. You both made some very good points.

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 06:41 PM

Mar 2017

I refer to holy books as the Schrödinger's cat of moral guides. They can just as easily be used to justify slavery, rape and murder as well as peace and generousity.

When a believer cites their holy book as a source for morality they conveniently ignore the parts that call for women to be subservient, for slaves to be sold, for infidels to be slaughtered and the murderous genocidal rage their god frequently exhibits.

Take the bible: killing almost living creature on the planet is justifiable because humans did some bad stuff? What kind of loving father does that? If God knew his children would disobey him (and being omnipotent he must have known) why torture and slaughter them for disobedience?

And humans are condemned to burn forever for acts that pale by comparison?

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Rekindling a Prophetic Moral Vision for Justice, Social Change and Movement Building [View all] guillaumeb Mar 2017 OP

Question. trotsky Mar 2017 #1

The organizers of this group. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #2

So there is no disagreement in that group - ever? trotsky Mar 2017 #5

Clearly those bringing the group together. hrmjustin Mar 2017 #3

Obvious, but not fitting with the desired agenda. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #8

There are people here and we both know who they are who will find the worst in anything you hrmjustin Mar 2017 #9

Consider it a balance Lordquinton Mar 2017 #14

Oh yes, those people. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #20

I could be wrong but... Meshuga Mar 2017 #4

I don't think you're wrong. trotsky Mar 2017 #6

I agree, I also don't think they understand this. Meshuga Mar 2017 #10

You both made some very good points. beam me up scottie Mar 2017 #11

That is the problem with making scripture holy Meshuga Mar 2017 #18

This is stating the obvious, however, guillaumeb Mar 2017 #7

While I agree that religion provides social organization Meshuga Mar 2017 #12

To your final point: guillaumeb Mar 2017 #13

Except we can point to section and verse Lordquinton Mar 2017 #15

Also true for silly things at a smaller scale Meshuga Mar 2017 #16

"by claiming it to be god's revelation" trotsky Mar 2017 #17

Yes, I agree with there being a huge difference Meshuga Mar 2017 #19

Interesting display of your mind reading skills, guillaumeb Mar 2017 #21

My post reading skills, you mean. trotsky Mar 2017 #22

Speaking of Prophetic Moral Visions AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #23

Anything to say about the work being done? guillaumeb Mar 2017 #24

Since words mean things, you lost me at 'Prophetic Moral Vision' in the headline. AtheistCrusader Mar 2017 #25

I understand where you are coming from on this. eom guillaumeb Mar 2017 #26