Should we fight religion? If so, why? (response to BionicDance)

Should we oppose religion? Which parts of it are a problem? What about non-detrimental beliefs?

This video basically sums up my entire perspective on the matter of fighting religion that Bionic Dance has brought up recently.

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[scottie0904]

I agree completely.

The fact that many religious beliefs are embraced by one group of people, while another group disregards them, yet both groups label themselves as "Christian" or "Muslim" makes it even more difficult to pin down the most harmful elements of one particular religion, and adds to the convolution in public discourse.

It would not matter if they simply kept those thoughts to themselves. Or at least shared only with those closest to them.

Awareness is the key, I think.

[SkallagrimNilsson]

@scottie0904

Well said.

[OcarinaKirby995]

I personally don't think we shouldn't fight religion, but I think that lines should be drawn about it. Nobody (including atheists) should be allowed to shove their religion down anyone's throats. I think that many Christians contradict the bible and continue to do that when the bible actually says that if someone doesn't want to hear the gospel, then don't teach it to them. I'm also sick and tired of them saying that gay marriage is evil. They are always saying that god should smite them, beca

[SkallagrimNilsson]

@OcarinaKirby995

Well, the problem is that some parts of the bible are outright evil. It demands gay people and those who work on the sabbath to be stoned to death, it advocates violent conversion or killing "infidels", it condones rape and slavery, and so on and so forth. Most believers do cherry picking but that doesn't change what's written in their "holy book".

[xiorawr]

@ScientificBob you know that atheism really is it's OWN religion.You believe in no God, but it IS a belief.It's its own religion that millions of people follow.It just isn't associated with being a religion because there is no God associated with it.

[ScientificBob]

@OcarinaKirby995 "Religion doesn't cause wars...crazy tyrants and disputes in general do."

The problem is the that many of those tyrants found their motivation and, in their eyes, justification in religious dogma. And in practically all cases, did these tyrants use the religious dogma's to get all their people to take up arms and go to war.

Even in atheistic russia, it was communist dogma and blind obedience that made it possible.

[ScientificBob]

@OcarinaKirby995 "Nobody (including atheists) should be allowed to shove their religion down anyone's throats"

Atheists don't have a religion. All I really want is simply a true secular society. Where religion simply is a non-factor. I don't care if it exists, I don't care if anyone believes it... I just don't want any of it influencing any part of public life. And I want the freedom to laugh at their beliefs just like we laugh at flat-earthers.

[SupremeAmerican]

@types10000 you just gave a quote from him declaring he changed it. you lost. deal with it.

[types10000]

@SupremeAmerican

"So you have not countered both or any of my..."

INCORRECT:

a). i addressed both of your responses to my evidences regarding Constantine's PRO-CHRISTIAN motivation for making Sunday the official day of rest of the Roman empire

b). even if both of these points had been completely wrong, i would have still demonstrated your assertion regarding Constantine CHANGING THE SABBATH to be a completely unevidenced load of crap.

*fluuush that's the sound of your argument* :)