Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
"..it helps me be a better person."
How does it help you be a better person?
I feel that the Christian religion gives me values, goals, and faith in getting trough hard times that my fellow non-believer friends lack.
Could you attain values and goals through something more humane?
What it comes down to is this; Is everything you gain from your religion worth all the side effects? What I mean by that is, is everything you gain, values, goals, meaning, purpose, worth the harm organized religion causes to other people, other people who don't have a choice in the matter at all? People who decide abortion might be a better option, people who need organs to survive, etc..
Having faith in a religion seems very selfish to me for this very reason. Theists choose their own comfort over other peoples dignity and humanity. I think that's something a lot of them don't really consider, they're surprised someone would think their religion could cause harm, or sure it used to be harmful, but that was just the OT...
Think of it like this... Say we're back in grade school, idk, 1st or 2nd grade, you and me are classmates. I'm new to the school so being around new kids scares the hell out of me. To help out, my mom tells me I can bring my teddy bear to class with me forgetting I had chicken pox a couple weeks earlier... So I bring my bear with me to class and it gets you and all the other kids sick (but not me because I was already sick)... Now consider instead of chicken pox, it's something else, something you can get infected with weekly, and I just keep on bringing it in because it provides me with a sense of safety in the classroom.
That's messed up and wrong, am I right?
How does it help you be a better person?
I feel that the Christian religion gives me values, goals, and faith in getting trough hard times that my fellow non-believer friends lack.
Could you attain values and goals through something more humane?
What it comes down to is this; Is everything you gain from your religion worth all the side effects? What I mean by that is, is everything you gain, values, goals, meaning, purpose, worth the harm organized religion causes to other people, other people who don't have a choice in the matter at all? People who decide abortion might be a better option, people who need organs to survive, etc..
Having faith in a religion seems very selfish to me for this very reason. Theists choose their own comfort over other peoples dignity and humanity. I think that's something a lot of them don't really consider, they're surprised someone would think their religion could cause harm, or sure it used to be harmful, but that was just the OT...
Think of it like this... Say we're back in grade school, idk, 1st or 2nd grade, you and me are classmates. I'm new to the school so being around new kids scares the hell out of me. To help out, my mom tells me I can bring my teddy bear to class with me forgetting I had chicken pox a couple weeks earlier... So I bring my bear with me to class and it gets you and all the other kids sick (but not me because I was already sick)... Now consider instead of chicken pox, it's something else, something you can get infected with weekly, and I just keep on bringing it in because it provides me with a sense of safety in the classroom.
That's messed up and wrong, am I right?