As the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, Steven Wienberg pointed out, those who claim that the worst things done in the name of religion are not religion, are simply using their morality to define religion, rather than using their religion to define their morality.
As Wienberg further pointed out, those who are willing to obey God and sacrifice Isaac, only value their sacred "beliefs" more than they value humanity or even human life. Worse, they attack all those who argue we should defend humanity to the determent of worshiping any "god" or religion, as necessarily worshiping humanity itself.
It is this blind devotion to a tyrannical God, a God that not only "willed" that his own son be tortured and murdered, and all for the very same humanity He had drowned with a flood just eons before, but who had also sent His "chosen people" to commit genocide agaisnt other nations on numerous occasions, as boasted about repeatedly in the Bible.
And yet, Catholics and Christians alike insist that what they call "religion" is in fact their own "morality," even as they refuse to accept that the two are not the same thing. It is the person's "morality" that leads them to "believe" in a religion, not the other way around. Indeed, it is morality that leads atheists to reject both God and religion!
Religion does not, and indeed it can not, shape a person's morality in a way that does not necessarily see humanity as simply a means to serving God, in the very same way that Abraham saw his son Isaac as simply a human life that, if God so ordered, was worthy of being knifed to death for God.
Christians argue that "Abraham knew God would not allow him to murder his son Isaac," but if this is true, then God's "command" was simply for show, and Abraham's "obedience" was completely meaningless.
What the Christian therefore argues is not that their own brand of "religion" is from God, but that their "morality" is completely dependent upon necessarily "believing" in a story about a man named Jesus, and that if they dare to abandon such a story, they may only rush out and become serial killers and rapists, as would everyone else.
And given the way some of the more rabid Christians seem to think, they may not be wrong!
As Wienberg further pointed out, those who are willing to obey God and sacrifice Isaac, only value their sacred "beliefs" more than they value humanity or even human life. Worse, they attack all those who argue we should defend humanity to the determent of worshiping any "god" or religion, as necessarily worshiping humanity itself.
It is this blind devotion to a tyrannical God, a God that not only "willed" that his own son be tortured and murdered, and all for the very same humanity He had drowned with a flood just eons before, but who had also sent His "chosen people" to commit genocide agaisnt other nations on numerous occasions, as boasted about repeatedly in the Bible.
And yet, Catholics and Christians alike insist that what they call "religion" is in fact their own "morality," even as they refuse to accept that the two are not the same thing. It is the person's "morality" that leads them to "believe" in a religion, not the other way around. Indeed, it is morality that leads atheists to reject both God and religion!
Religion does not, and indeed it can not, shape a person's morality in a way that does not necessarily see humanity as simply a means to serving God, in the very same way that Abraham saw his son Isaac as simply a human life that, if God so ordered, was worthy of being knifed to death for God.
Christians argue that "Abraham knew God would not allow him to murder his son Isaac," but if this is true, then God's "command" was simply for show, and Abraham's "obedience" was completely meaningless.
What the Christian therefore argues is not that their own brand of "religion" is from God, but that their "morality" is completely dependent upon necessarily "believing" in a story about a man named Jesus, and that if they dare to abandon such a story, they may only rush out and become serial killers and rapists, as would everyone else.
And given the way some of the more rabid Christians seem to think, they may not be wrong!
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