Religious people never cease to amaze me with their genocides, rampant racism, support for the latest power elite, indoctrination and violation of children, individuation of out-groups to oppose, torture of people with different sexual preferences, exploitation of people lacking education/mental well-being/financial means, de-prioritization of basic human rights against their “clergy”-given values.
Shall I list off the crimes and systemic injustices perpetrated by atheists, or secular systems? Because the capacity to do great evil is not a trait exclusive to the religious.
I don’t deny that religious systems often facilitate the grave injustices that you list, but to lay equal blame across all religions and religious people is foolish because it fails to get at the true problem. People abusing their power would be a problem even if there were no religious people in the world at all.
And to me, any ideology that reaches the point in which it has to challenge reason to survive is a religion just the same, and that would easily include nazism, stalinism and late-stage capitalism.
Religious people never cease to amaze me with their genocides, rampant racism, support for the latest power elite, indoctrination and violation of children, individuation of out-groups to oppose, torture of people with different sexual preferences, exploitation of people lacking education/mental well-being/financial means, de-prioritization of basic human rights against their “clergy”-given values.
Shall I list off the crimes and systemic injustices perpetrated by atheists, or secular systems? Because the capacity to do great evil is not a trait exclusive to the religious.
I don’t deny that religious systems often facilitate the grave injustices that you list, but to lay equal blame across all religions and religious people is foolish because it fails to get at the true problem. People abusing their power would be a problem even if there were no religious people in the world at all.
People don’t generally commit crimes or systemic injustice in the name of atheism though. That’s a false equivalency.
Let’s go ahead and get the, “internet atheists are cringe” shit out of the way so people can have an actual conversation maybe.
I never said they are not able to do evil.
And to me, any ideology that reaches the point in which it has to challenge reason to survive is a religion just the same, and that would easily include nazism, stalinism and late-stage capitalism.