The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150071   Message #3494591
Posted By: Richard Bridge
25-Mar-13 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
With all due respect (ie not much) it seems to me that what many object to about religion is not that the religious believe that there is a god but that they believe that they are entitled, in the name of their god, to demand that those who do not believe in that god obey its rules.

Look at all the evils committed in the name of religion, from the human sacrifices of old to the crusader invasions of the East Mediterranean to the fantastic repression and even genocide by the Roman Catholics to the religious cries of the (thankfully fairly atypical) Islamist bomber or proponent of stoning for "sex outside marriage" when in fact raped or challenge of morality rules by FEMEN.

Has not religion done and does not religion do more harm than good?