Every religion with a "God" figure has tales of their deity rendering judgement on humans, killing them, destroying entire cultures, cities, populations etc....
Zeus killed and tortured several humans, Shiva is known as the destroyer, Allah is the bringer of death, punishment etc.....
Every "God" has been credited with directly killing humans at some point. Not acting thru followers but directly exacting punishment.
Every religion with a "God" figure has tales of their deity rendering judgement on humans, killing them, destroying entire cultures, cities, populations etc....
Zeus killed and tortured several humans, Shiva is known as the destroyer, Allah is the bringer of death, punishment etc.....
Every "God" has been credited with directly killing humans at some point. Not acting thru followers but directly exacting punishment.
yes but they are all fairy tails. this is reality we are talking about. :)
I think I've quoted Steven Weinberg, the Physics Nobel Laureate before:
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least."
"Religious people have grappled for millennia with the theodicy, the problem posed by the existence of suffering in a world that is supposed to be ruled by a good God. They have found ingenious solutions in terms of various supposed divine plans. I will not try to argue with these solutions, much less to add one of my own. Remembrance of the Holocaust leaves me unsympathetic to attempts to justify the ways of God to man. If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers."
"It's a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science -- that it has made it possible for people not to be religious."
"I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make."
"Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion."
And then.....fter getting rid of all that nonsense from his head, he was free to let his mind expand and went on to be one of the greatest physicists of all time.
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