I found this quote today, and it made me think right away of what I just posted about religious believers inadvertently aiding in the overall damage of the religious structure, about the frustrating nature of inaction and what could be accomplished if there was an emphasis on taking responsibility and taking action.
A good read of the Bible (Old or New Testament), Qur’an, and Buddhist teachings among others HAS to show this point. The biggest problem many Atheists have with believers is the “pick and choose” way that they read Holy Scripture. There is an abundance of terrible teachings and the encouragement of horrible deeds and yet somehow it is ok to condone this system for the good parts, but when an Atheist takes the opposite approach and condemns this system for the bad parts well then they must be wrong? Hitler did some good things for Germany for a while, does that make him a good guy? Well…He was a firm Christian so the logic could follow that way.
The other picture I found:
I talked about this in my last post as well, but now that I want to be blogging I have been looking to get a collection of quotes and images (after all an all text blog would be terribly boring).Think about the idea of what someone could do if all the fervor put into Religion was put elsewhere, I do not think that people who are devout and single minded are that way because the belief in God is that compelling, I think that some people are inclined to give themselves wholly over to what they believe in and when Religion finds them they do so. Imagine if something else were the object of all this time, effort and money.
Two hands working can accomplish more than a hundred clasped in prayer. Think of a Prayer Vigil for victims of any tragedy – all the time and money spent organizing this event and then the event itself. Couldn’t all this effort be put into a volunteer program for the victims or the families? Or a program to research how to prevent further tragedy?
After all how would it accomplish anything to ask the being that created the problems to then fix them, wont that go against the divine plan that we are not supposed to mess with? I don’t think I can understand the point of this, if someone hurt me or made me sick they are probably the last person that I would go to for help in getting better.
Atheist Ramblings 