This is a topic called "Complete Monsters"

[Klaufi_Wodensson]

Welcome to Facebook

I found it on a facebook page called "RELIGION IS EVIL"

They refer to religion as "Christianity" for the most part, and to me that shows their ignorance. They call religion evil, yet don't take all religions into account. Maybe if they looked at other religions they may change their stance, not from being atheist, but at least on the point that religion is evil.

Anyway, your thoughts?

 

[yourhopeboundheart]

just sounds like most of youtube just in print.
lots of hype, few facts, and an angry attitude.
in one of the posts, one of the posters refers to having been feeling the way he does for "months". sounds like somebody's just having a phase.

it's the sort of people who only read books/websites that they know will agree with them.
what are you gonna do?

 

[HonestJoe]

Some people are idiots, some people are atheist and sometimes those groups overlap.

You don't need to be atheist to believe religion (as a concept or in specifics) is "evil" and you certainly don't need to be atheist to post ignorant rubbish on the internet.

 

[Klaufi_Wodensson]

just sounds like most of youtube just in print.
lots of hype, few facts, and an angry attitude.
in one of the posts, one of the posters refers to having been feeling the way he does for "months". sounds like somebody's just having a phase.

it's the sort of people who only read books/websites that they know will agree with them.
what are you gonna do?

I agree. All they are doing is showing ignorance, and as they claim religion is evil, they are saying that atheists should band together and take out religion once and for all. That doesn't sound very nice. Especially since no one would go out without a fight, so there is bound to be violence, which wouldn't be considered the most benevolent thing.

 

[yourhopeboundheart]

I agree. All they are doing is showing ignorance, and as they claim religion is evil, they are saying that atheists should band together and take out religion once and for all. That doesn't sound very nice. Especially since no one would go out without a fight, so there is bound to be violence, which wouldn't be considered the most benevolent thing.

these sorts of people would never get to this point. a lot of them read/watched something and then felt personally responsible for regurgitating that "information" without adding anything to it - like compassion, or research, or motivation, or even a functioning definition of what atheism means.

perhaps the most impact there is to this is that inevitably some small town preacher has found this and used it to scare parents into a fear of something (the internet, atheists, secularism...).

 

[Rhizomatic]

Most people who think that they have a problem with religion in general really just have a problem with the specific religions that they know best. Bill Maher is a good example...

 

[JustWondering]

Most people who think that they have a problem with religion in general really just have a problem with the specific religions that they know best. Bill Maher is a good example...

And your point being? Are you saying someone has to be an expert on all religion before they are allowed to voice an opinion?

 

[logician]

Most people who think that they have a problem with religion in general really just have a problem with the specific religions that they know best. Bill Maher is a good example...

How many religions have traditionally stood for scientific advancement?

 

[Blackdog22]

Welcome to Facebook

I found it on a facebook page called "RELIGION IS EVIL"

They refer to religion as "Christianity" for the most part, and to me that shows their ignorance. They call religion evil, yet don't take all religions into account. Maybe if they looked at other religions they may change their stance, not from being atheist, but at least on the point that religion is evil.

Anyway, your thoughts?

Some people will go to extremes after having a bad experience with one religion. In there minds the word itself becomes evil without considering the variables. When I was young I went through a phase like this, my family joined a cult and I lost them. From that moment forth I hated religion, not because it was rational, but because I never wanted that to happen again and wanted to get away from anything even remotely associated with it.

Of course now my stance has changed, I still have mixed views on Christianity, but I definitely don't hate all religions. I practice some Buddhist teachings and they are very peaceful.

 

[Midnight Pete]

Welcome to Facebook

I found it on a facebook page called "RELIGION IS EVIL"

They refer to religion as "Christianity" for the most part, and to me that shows their ignorance. They call religion evil, yet don't take all religions into account. Maybe if they looked at other religions they may change their stance, not from being atheist, but at least on the point that religion is evil.

Anyway, your thoughts?

RELIGION IS EVIL.

Hmm. A sweeping generalization if ever there was one. Here are some other statements similar to that one.

1. GAY PEOPLE SPREAD AIDS
2. BLACK PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS
3. COMPASSION IS WEAKNESS

 

[Jeremiah]

Welcome to Facebook

I found it on a facebook page called "RELIGION IS EVIL"

They refer to religion as "Christianity" for the most part, and to me that shows their ignorance. They call religion evil, yet don't take all religions into account. Maybe if they looked at other religions they may change their stance, not from being atheist, but at least on the point that religion is evil.

Anyway, your thoughts?

"Anyway, your thoughts?"

Stop wasting your time on worthless Facebook profiles.

 

[Midnight Pete]

I agree. All they are doing is showing ignorance, and as they claim religion is evil, they are saying that atheists should band together and take out religion once and for all. That doesn't sound very nice. Especially since no one would go out without a fight, so there is bound to be violence, which wouldn't be considered the most benevolent thing.

No, but then again there is nothing about atheism that compels people to be benevolent. There's no moral code. There are no rules to break.

 

[Jeremiah]

No, but then again there is nothing about atheism that compels people to be benevolent. There's no moral code. There are no rules to break.

"There are no rules to break."

True morality does not come from a book, it comes from heart and mind, something atheist and theist are both born with. I don't need a religion to tell me the difference from right and wrong, because I have brain that I use for that.

 

[Klaufi_Wodensson]

No, but then again there is nothing about atheism that compels people to be benevolent. There's no moral code. There are no rules to break.

Yes, but as is evident with MANY Christians, even with those rules in place it still does not mean anyone is going to be moral.

 

[Rhizomatic]

And your point being? Are you saying someone has to be an expert on all religion before they are allowed to voice an opinion?

How do you go from "points about individual religions aren't logically generalizable to all religion" to "no one who is not an expert on all forms of religion can express any opinion about any form of religion"? My point is simply that people often attribute what they're familiar with in religion to all religion.

How many religions have traditionally stood for scientific advancement?

The fact that religion is not science hardly seems to justify a universalized problem with religion itself, particularly when religions routinely have no conflict with an increasing empirical understanding of the natural world.

 

[Man of Faith]

How many religions have traditionally stood for scientific advancement?

The Christian religious, who started science.

 

[Tristesse]

No, but then again there is nothing about atheism that compels people to be benevolent. There's no moral code. There are no rules to break.

What? You think it's god that causes people to behave? There are plenty of rules to be broken, that if they are broken you suffer real repercussions in the real world.

 

[Tristesse]

The Christian religious, who started science.

They were mainly responsible for hindering a lot of the science that came out of their institutions.

 

[Autodidact]

No, but then again there is nothing about atheism that compels people to be benevolent. There's no moral code. There are no rules to break.

Good job at exemplifying one of the evils religion promotes: inability to think logically.

 

[gnomon]

Welcome to Facebook

I found it on a facebook page called "RELIGION IS EVIL"

They refer to religion as "Christianity" for the most part, and to me that shows their ignorance. They call religion evil, yet don't take all religions into account. Maybe if they looked at other religions they may change their stance, not from being atheist, but at least on the point that religion is evil.

Anyway, your thoughts?

It's a web page devoted to fallacious reasoning. Namely composition. Not to mention personification which is just annoying when people do it with not only the term religion but with science (science is going to destroy us) or nature (Mother Nature's wrath).

An example from the site:

It's clear that, from the very start of civilization, Religion has been a secret weapon that hides it's true hideous face.

What?