Doesn't This Article Make The Likes Of Scientist Richard Dawkins Appear Profoundly Silly ?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Blamin ... 2-792.html

Blaming Religion for the Evils of the World is Like Blaming Science for Pollution, Nuclear Fallout and Global Warming

By M. Wizard
opednews.com

Swami Vivekananda once said that if one looks closely at history, one will find that all of the horrors generally attributed to religion were really political in nature. Yet, it's interesting that we never hear politics being excoriated for the world's ills as we often do religion.

The primary message of all of the world's major religions (and most of the minor ones) is love, faith, charity and non-violence. Leo Tolstoy spent most of his later years preaching and attempting to live by Christ's teaching which he thought was central to his life and mission: "Resist not evil":

If certain (many in fact) individuals have twisted the teachings of the great religions for the sake of money and power, whose fault is that? To blame this on "Religion" is no different from blaming the evils and nightmares which are the by product of modern technology on "Science". The fact of the matter is: all of the great evil ever done in the world can be traced to individuals either ignoring or outright mocking values which are at the heart of religion, i.e. ethics and morality.

In addition, Noam Chomsky has pointed out that all of our great social movements from the abolition of slavery, to women's suffrage, to the Civil Rights Act have had their origin, and primary support, in the country's churches and synogogues.

While it's easy to look ar historical events superficially and blame the Inquisition or the Holocaust, for example- ad infinitum - on religion, this is generally done by people who either never felt the need to live a religious life, or simply felt that they lacked the character to do so.

But to blame the religion of Rama, Krishna, Plato, Jesus, Newton, J.S. Bach, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr... is a downright sin.

0 members like this

Replies are closed for this discussion.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on February 9, 2011 at 4:38pm

It has been horribly misrepresented. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I need to misrepresent me up some more coffee.

Permalink Reply by Dave G on February 9, 2011 at 4:41pm

You might say that it has been misrepresented...

Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on February 9, 2011 at 5:04pm

You have my vote for Miss Represents.

Permalink Reply by Pope OoO (Out of Order) on February 9, 2011 at 4:51pm

I second the observation. For whatever observations are worth now.

Permalink Reply by Doug Brunt on February 9, 2011 at 5:02pm

I agree

James

Your obviously well read in the scriptures ectra.

If the gospels were historical documents.

Do you think Jesus told his followers to kill and killed people himself while he was on earth ?

Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on February 9, 2011 at 5:06pm

This thread was destined for absurdity from the get go. Absurdity is an important part of humanity, and, as an atheist, humanity is something I try to celebrate. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

‹ Previous
1
…
27
28
29
Next ›

RSS

Welcome to
Think Atheist

Get Started Now
or Sign In

Or sign in with:

What's new today

1	Accosted
2	How common is this?
3	America - "Love It or Leave It"
4	The Republicans accelerate their downward spiral
5	'Smite Club'
6	Praying Won't Do Shit!
7	This is the best way I've ever seen to teach someone evolution
8	I want to get off now.
9	True!
10	earth in a year