Sure, "helping is primal". But the Jihadist, having a different theology than the Christian, believes he is helping you by converting you to Islam by the sword. Not so the Christian, for whom religion is the "The voluntary subjection of oneself to God".
The island of atheists? Sure, they'd "help others" for some definition of "help" and "others". I know something about the Christian command to love my neighbor but don't know the official atheist dogma on helping others. If one acted like there were no God why would he think he has any duty to help others? On Sep 12, 8:28 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > AW; > Yes there is............. > I'll refer you to rigsy's sept. 6 10:15 am post as to my "theistic > religiosity" comment. > > Also, people use therapy and AA like a religion- in fact, they "use" a > lot of things in lieu of religion. What about jingoism? <<<rigsy > > Do you think no one would help anyone else on an island of atheists > because they didn't have a religion to tell them to do so? Helping > is primal and innate as nurturing; religion and faith is human > construct and not necessity.
