Cloud Hobbit
2018-04-03 21:13:10 UTC
http://home.mweb.co.za/it/iti04330/atheist1a.htm ON MORALITY
It's insane to take moral instructions from a god guilty of such horrendous crimes.
A do as I say not as I do god.
A perverted morality
Not only do followers believe their god to be perfectly good, but that the whole concept of morality is their god's idea. Followers believe their twisted god created morality.
They believe their god is the source of all morality, that morality is exclusively their gods' idea, that there can be no morality without this god.
This god determines all of morality.
This god is morally perfect, it is incapable of immoral behavior, even incapable of immoral thoughts, so murdering every human on this planet and sending people to infinite torture, merely for not worshipping it, is good and moral behavior.
They even go so far as to claim that morality is exclusive to the followers of this evil god. They claim a monopoly on morality and even go as far as trying to force this so called morality on the rest of humanity.
A morality that is more about worshipping their god than about not harming others.
The first four commandments of the Ten Commandments are not about not doing harm to others, but about worshipping the god.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
1. You shall have no other gods before me.
This is a tactic admission that there are other gods. It doesn't deny the existence of other gods, it just commands you to make sure that old Yahweh is first on your worship list. Basically, the first commandment is about this gods' childish jealousy.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image.
more petty jealousy
3. You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.
I don't know what this means.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
How exactly are you supposed to keep a day 'holy'? Sprinkel it with holy water? Mainstream Christians don't take this commandment very seriously, even though it is number four on the list before thou shall not murder, yet Sunday shopping is prevalent throughout America.
None of the above have anything to do with real morality.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not murder.
Only number seven on the list.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet.
Covet? Seldom used today, not many actually know what it means.
Christian Morality
Christians don't seem to be capable of telling right from wrong for themselves. They need to be told by their churches what is right and what is wrong.
Atheists have the intelligence to work it out themselves.
'Good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.'
It seems that Christians have to be threatened with infinite punishment to get them to behave morally.
To behave morally out of fear of extreme punishment or for an eternal reward is fake morality.
Christian morality is based on fear and bribes.
Christian morality is a false morality.
'If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.' [Albert Einstein]
Atheist morality is real morality.
Real morality is when one acts morally without the promise of reward or the threat of punishment, out of common decency, simply because it is the rational, right thing to do. The 'golden rule' is rational, it's logical. Society runs smoother. Hypocrisy is irrational.
IRRATIONAL BELIEFS LEAD TO IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Worshipping violent gods leads to violent behavior
Its no wonder that the worshipers of this twisted god are capable of crusades, jihad's, inquisitions, fatwas, slavery, genocide, annihilating entire indigenous populations and taking over their countries and continents, dropping napalm bombs on villages, spaying millions of acres of forest with agent orange, blowing up the World Trade Center, etc.
It stands to reason that the worshipers of the most violent god in mythology would commit the biggest crimes in reality.
The bible was/is used to justify the Holocaust, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Spanish conquistadors, colonialism, slavery, racism, female oppression, gay bashing, the murdering of pro-choice doctors etc.
�Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.� (Blaise Pascal)
The World Trade Center Suicide Bombing
A prime example of how irrational beliefs can result in irrational behavior.
The totally irrational belief in immortality, in an afterlife in paradise being serviced by 72 virgins with continually regrowing hymens, in a god that wants people to kill and die for it, led to the irrational acts of flying passenger jets into the World Trade Center.
MORE IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
The greatest madness of all
The go forth and multiply doctrine of the Catholics.
Uncontrolled breeding in the middle of a population explosion is so totally irrational, it's actually insane.
Without a doubt, overpopulation is by far the most pressing problem facing this planet. The human carrying capacity of planet earth has been exceeded. We are in the middle of a population explosion crisis! It is the root cause of all the major problems facing us today. Mass poverty, mass starvation, deforestation, pollution, soil erosion, over farming, overfishing, species extinction, (in fact, overall general environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale), wars, genocide, diseases, slums, illiteracy, crime and even stress to name a few. If the current birthrate continues there will be a catastrophic environmental collapse in less than fifty years time. Our only hope is to drastically reduce the current birthrate and this can only be done through family planning and birth-control. To be anti-birth-control under the present circumstances is not just unbelievably stupid, its immoral.
A self-fulfilling prophecy
Catholics doctrine predicts a so-called �Armageddon� and their go forth and multiply doctrine is certainly helping that prophecy come true.
More madness
Opposition to safe sex campaigns in the middle of an aids epidemic. The result of the Catholic churches' opposition to safe sex campaigns is, of course, a higher aids rate and a higher birthrate. Aids then become a kind of Catholic population control! Starvation, disease, and war are direct results of overpopulation. Is this how the Catholics want to control overpopulation.
It's insane to take moral instructions from a god guilty of such horrendous crimes.
A do as I say not as I do god.
A perverted morality
Not only do followers believe their god to be perfectly good, but that the whole concept of morality is their god's idea. Followers believe their twisted god created morality.
They believe their god is the source of all morality, that morality is exclusively their gods' idea, that there can be no morality without this god.
This god determines all of morality.
This god is morally perfect, it is incapable of immoral behavior, even incapable of immoral thoughts, so murdering every human on this planet and sending people to infinite torture, merely for not worshipping it, is good and moral behavior.
They even go so far as to claim that morality is exclusive to the followers of this evil god. They claim a monopoly on morality and even go as far as trying to force this so called morality on the rest of humanity.
A morality that is more about worshipping their god than about not harming others.
The first four commandments of the Ten Commandments are not about not doing harm to others, but about worshipping the god.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
1. You shall have no other gods before me.
This is a tactic admission that there are other gods. It doesn't deny the existence of other gods, it just commands you to make sure that old Yahweh is first on your worship list. Basically, the first commandment is about this gods' childish jealousy.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image.
more petty jealousy
3. You shall not take the name of the lord your god in vain.
I don't know what this means.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
How exactly are you supposed to keep a day 'holy'? Sprinkel it with holy water? Mainstream Christians don't take this commandment very seriously, even though it is number four on the list before thou shall not murder, yet Sunday shopping is prevalent throughout America.
None of the above have anything to do with real morality.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not murder.
Only number seven on the list.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet.
Covet? Seldom used today, not many actually know what it means.
Christian Morality
Christians don't seem to be capable of telling right from wrong for themselves. They need to be told by their churches what is right and what is wrong.
Atheists have the intelligence to work it out themselves.
'Good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.'
It seems that Christians have to be threatened with infinite punishment to get them to behave morally.
To behave morally out of fear of extreme punishment or for an eternal reward is fake morality.
Christian morality is based on fear and bribes.
Christian morality is a false morality.
'If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.' [Albert Einstein]
Atheist morality is real morality.
Real morality is when one acts morally without the promise of reward or the threat of punishment, out of common decency, simply because it is the rational, right thing to do. The 'golden rule' is rational, it's logical. Society runs smoother. Hypocrisy is irrational.
IRRATIONAL BELIEFS LEAD TO IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Worshipping violent gods leads to violent behavior
Its no wonder that the worshipers of this twisted god are capable of crusades, jihad's, inquisitions, fatwas, slavery, genocide, annihilating entire indigenous populations and taking over their countries and continents, dropping napalm bombs on villages, spaying millions of acres of forest with agent orange, blowing up the World Trade Center, etc.
It stands to reason that the worshipers of the most violent god in mythology would commit the biggest crimes in reality.
The bible was/is used to justify the Holocaust, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Spanish conquistadors, colonialism, slavery, racism, female oppression, gay bashing, the murdering of pro-choice doctors etc.
�Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.� (Blaise Pascal)
The World Trade Center Suicide Bombing
A prime example of how irrational beliefs can result in irrational behavior.
The totally irrational belief in immortality, in an afterlife in paradise being serviced by 72 virgins with continually regrowing hymens, in a god that wants people to kill and die for it, led to the irrational acts of flying passenger jets into the World Trade Center.
MORE IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
The greatest madness of all
The go forth and multiply doctrine of the Catholics.
Uncontrolled breeding in the middle of a population explosion is so totally irrational, it's actually insane.
Without a doubt, overpopulation is by far the most pressing problem facing this planet. The human carrying capacity of planet earth has been exceeded. We are in the middle of a population explosion crisis! It is the root cause of all the major problems facing us today. Mass poverty, mass starvation, deforestation, pollution, soil erosion, over farming, overfishing, species extinction, (in fact, overall general environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale), wars, genocide, diseases, slums, illiteracy, crime and even stress to name a few. If the current birthrate continues there will be a catastrophic environmental collapse in less than fifty years time. Our only hope is to drastically reduce the current birthrate and this can only be done through family planning and birth-control. To be anti-birth-control under the present circumstances is not just unbelievably stupid, its immoral.
A self-fulfilling prophecy
Catholics doctrine predicts a so-called �Armageddon� and their go forth and multiply doctrine is certainly helping that prophecy come true.
More madness
Opposition to safe sex campaigns in the middle of an aids epidemic. The result of the Catholic churches' opposition to safe sex campaigns is, of course, a higher aids rate and a higher birthrate. Aids then become a kind of Catholic population control! Starvation, disease, and war are direct results of overpopulation. Is this how the Catholics want to control overpopulation.