THE HISS OF RELIGIOUS OBSCURANTISM;
FROM PROGRESSION TO REGRESSION !
Has anything caused as much as human suffering as religion?You might say-disease but religion itself is a disease of human race and of individual minds.Persecution,war,torture,
Religion should have been wrecked beyond repair b
FROM PROGRESSION TO REGRESSION !
Has anything caused as much as human suffering as religion?You might say-disease but religion itself is a disease of human race and of individual minds.Persecution,war,torture,
Religion should have been wrecked beyond repair b
y
science.In case ,science were properly taught to children and all 'god'
good stories classed with fairy tales,as they should be,religion as a
force in public life would soon come to an end.We doubt,whether there is
an innate need in the human psyche to believe in the '
supernatural'?We doubt that religion arises naturally,fulfilling some evolutionary function.It arose,in human race because it was natural to homo sapiens to seek knowledge about their surroundings.Religious answers were guesses.Science now provides real answer,more than enough of them to expose the old religious explanations as childish fantasy.
Concerning religious belief and lunacy, here’s another quotation from The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris. It’s a horrifying story.
The boundary between mental illness and respectable religious belief can be difficult to discern. This was made especially vivid in a recent court case involving a small group of very committed Christians accused of murdering an eighteen-month-old infant. The trouble began when the boy ceased to say “Amen” before meals. Believing that he had developed “a spirit of rebellion”, the group, which included the boy’s mother, deprived him of food and water until he died. Upon being indicted, the mother accepted an unusual plea agreement: she vowed to cooperate in the prosecution of her codefendants under the condition that all charges be dropped if her son were resurrected. The prosecutor accepted the plea provided that that resurrection was “Jesus-like” and did not include reincarnation as another person or animal. Despite the fact that this band of lunatics carried the boy’s corpse around in a green suitcase for over a year, awaiting his reanimation, there is no [other] reason to believe that any of them suffer from mental illness. It is obvious, however, that they suffer from religion.
supernatural'?We doubt that religion arises naturally,fulfilling some evolutionary function.It arose,in human race because it was natural to homo sapiens to seek knowledge about their surroundings.Religious answers were guesses.Science now provides real answer,more than enough of them to expose the old religious explanations as childish fantasy.
Concerning religious belief and lunacy, here’s another quotation from The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris. It’s a horrifying story.
The boundary between mental illness and respectable religious belief can be difficult to discern. This was made especially vivid in a recent court case involving a small group of very committed Christians accused of murdering an eighteen-month-old infant. The trouble began when the boy ceased to say “Amen” before meals. Believing that he had developed “a spirit of rebellion”, the group, which included the boy’s mother, deprived him of food and water until he died. Upon being indicted, the mother accepted an unusual plea agreement: she vowed to cooperate in the prosecution of her codefendants under the condition that all charges be dropped if her son were resurrected. The prosecutor accepted the plea provided that that resurrection was “Jesus-like” and did not include reincarnation as another person or animal. Despite the fact that this band of lunatics carried the boy’s corpse around in a green suitcase for over a year, awaiting his reanimation, there is no [other] reason to believe that any of them suffer from mental illness. It is obvious, however, that they suffer from religion.
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