Margaret Atwood on Religion Part2/3

Atwood Discusses Religion

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[greenleaflink]

So your a Muslim, but you say that the Bible (Christians) and Torah (Jews) are corrupt...

and only the Koran is uncorrupt...and judgement day?

Seems you have the "syndrome" that all -other- religions are wrong, tainted except yours.

there ALL corrupt.

[RyeItGrrl]

Oh no! At 6:00 she actually defended religion and said that the flaw is in people! God forbid all the religious fanatics actually listened to what Atwood has to say rather than burning her books.

[velnias]

It's interesting that her calling atheism a religion seems to involve placing upon atheists the burden of proof to say that there is not a God. That mindset is fundamentally flawed, and it explains her misunderstanding.

The burden of proof is not on the atheists. The burden of proof is on those who claim that the invisible, unknowable entity exists. Atheists see no hard evidence that there is an invisible, unknowable entity. Again, the burden of proof is not on the atheists.

[ritchloui]

@sewagedweller The body count of the Vatican probably compares quite well with Stalin (a Jesuit) and Mao. Have you included the transmogrification of the Americas into a gigantic genocidal slave camp by the RCC's bullies? Also its 'indulgences' that made it all the richer proportionate to the cruelty? The eye-witness from 1493-1540 Bartelome de las Cassus estimated 50 million people were slaughtered and the real fun hadn't really begun till 1520. Islam probably has a WORSE record though.

[seanbirch]

Oh Atwood, i'm disappointed. Atheism isn't a religion, just as baldness isn't a hair colour. It's not the definitive statement that there is no god, it is simply a non-belief in god. It's a rejection of all the positive claims about a god. It is seperate from gnosticism or agnosticism.

[greenleaflink]

@MrCoreyCole

thanks you grammar polices.

[MrCoreyCole]

@greenleaflink *you're

*they're

[elh666]

@sewagedweller ... however, I might start calling Mao 'Mew' from now on. It's sort of cute :3

[sewagedweller]

@elh666 liberalism is a new political correctness . The body count by Vatican cannot compare to one of stalin or mew . basically atheists are doing same thing as muslim , we are religion of peace . Never did anything bad .

[elh666]

@sewagedweller You're getting dangerously close to Godwin's law there :P I would also argue that both of the people ordered genocide on religious people because it was vital for their regimes to function... not because they found them 'annoying'. Let's not forget how many atheists have been persecuted by the Vatican.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is one of the most challenged modern novels. If you're going to call Atwood 'politically correct' just because she's liberal, you're barking up the wrong tree.

[sewagedweller]

@elh666 well there was this one atheist called stalin , and then there was another called comrade mao..... I wasnt studying english i was taking a mandatory writing class which was supposed to help my english , but instead of teaching me about writing it was all about feminist ass kissing. remind me again when did English writing classes suddenly became about shitty , long, politically correct turd novels that no one in their right state of mind wants to read ?