And let us now remember the evil done by doctrinaire atheists such as Stalin and Mao. Verily it is not faith in diety or religion that causeth evil, but belief in all master narratives. If thou wouldst do no evil, have not faith, not even faith in no-faith.
============== If religion is indeed as hateful as William T Goodall says it is, then the fervent hatred of religion is also just an inverted religion. Anti-religion just manifests religious intolerance in another guise. Hatred without balance, reason, or limit is still hatred no matter how well founded the underlying theory. Indeed, the rational conclusion that religion is harmful has in modern times produced worse harm than religion itself, notably in the wake of the French Revolution and Communism. Furthermore, let us not forget, that from the 1850s to the 1960s or 1970s Marxism was based in (what for the times) were advanced historical and social scholarship. Even today global scholarship benefits from Marxian theory. Communists had and have an irrefutable modernist, rationalist pedigree. Being "rational" and "modern" is no guarantee at all against monstrosity. I'm with Voltaire. Most people NEED religion. Trying to quash religion makes as much sense as trying to repress sexuality. It simply won't work. Humans simply have a "spiritual" instinct. I see nothing constructive, or even terribly informative, in W.T. Goodall's hate-speech against some ill-defined phenomenon called "religion". On Sunday 2005-06-19 15:28, William T Goodall wrote: > On 19 Jun 2005, at 10:55 pm, Dave Land wrote: > > On Jun 19, 2005, at 5:26 AM, William T Goodall wrote: > >> ... > > > > Oh, really? Who cares? > > LOL. Hiding your head in the sand doesn't make religion any less > monstrously evil. > > I'm fed up reading knee-jerk woolly-minded garbage about how great > religion is. I'll just post a few actual facts about what religion is > really about. Obscene evil, that's what. Rape, murder, child-abuse, > cannibalism, genocide, oppression and hatred. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
