Religion interferes with cultural progress - The Atheist Experience #631

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[bcgonynor]

You're equating people's race with their religion. They didn't create our numerals because they were Hindu, they did it to make calculations. Nor did Islam give us algebra, the Arabs did. Would you say calculus was a Christian invention because Newton was a Christian? Were the Roman numerals invented by Roman priests? Religion is a part of culture, but its not the whole thing. We all have to make a living, and science can help with that.

[NormanAngle]

Close to racist? It's nowhere near.

Americans seem to have a real problem realising what racism is.

[dkthg]

@otaku3d Jesus is SEXY! Have you seen his ABS?

[Thelondonbadger]

@rossmat707 Please actually gooogle his speechs an see the heavy christian content and quotes from the bible in order to whip up hatred for the jews.Who had moved into the country after ww1 to buy up small bussiness, loans then repo en masse when they hit the depression creating a feeling of distrust before hitler started talking.Germanys depression was 100 times worse then usa's.All the industrial factorys and large areas of land in germany were bought by jewish americans who evaded tax also.

[jollyandwaylo]

@rossmat707 Of course Hitler used the religious hatred of Jews, why do you think that anti-Jewish propaganda worked? Martin Luther and his followers had been blaming Jews for killing Jesus for hundreds of years.

[rossmat707]

Hitler scapegoating Jews as the source of all of Germany's woes was acheived through non religious propaganda. Although history shows religion to be one of the most powerful tools by which to manipulate a group of people, Charismatic leaders can influence in many ways without having to resort to religious dogma.

[otaku3d]

My girlfriend was also soft-theist, then she suddenly fall in love with Jesus, her mind changed dramatically and she urged me to accept Jesus ... or leave. Then i saw the REAL face of religion. Romancing with Jesus is an abomination to me.

[Froggydog1000]

I went fron Ttheist to antitheist.

[Priesty77]

"Religion interferes with cultural progress"? This is what defines and is central to many cultures. So how can you have cultural progress when you abandon the corner stone of your ethnicity and society?

[greco0994]

@NormanAngle pretty sure Americans know alot about racism considering our history to say somthing like that is just illiterate.

[MrZardoz777]

Since Islam, per se, advocates the torture and murder of nonmuslims, it's always fair to criticize the religion itself as being totalitarian. The prevailing culture will influence the way people act on the tenets of Islam, but the fact that people often ignore them doesn't make them any less evil.

Praising people for ignoring aspects of their own religion doesn't show respect for the religion, but only highlights the religion's irrelevance.

[halflifefan84]

@NormanAngle Yeah, I have a black friend who gets pissed when someone even says the word black.