08.12.07
About Your Comments.
Wow - I’ve gotten lots of one word comments in the last two days on my article “Walter Clark’s Criteria for a Mature Religion” Someone must be passing it around. Thanks! This is great. I look forward to more comments - pro or con. I’d love to see some discussion on these topics!
MPJ said,
August 13, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Now my IT major son informs me that all those one-word commments may be SPAM. Well, that’s a disappointment. I sure wish someone would send some comments - even ones that disagree!
Emanuel Goldstein said,
September 18, 2007 at 7:16 am
I didn’t have a religious upbringing either.
My uncle raised my sister and I, and was an atheist. He had something like 2500 books on atheism, philosophy, Nietzsche and various pieces of literature in what he called his basement bunker.
On Saturday nights he had meeings at their free though groups. where they also drank.
Afterwards, he raped my aunt and, several years later, my sister, He also loved to spout Nietzschisms; “Goest thou to woman! Takest thou they whip!”
I know its wrong, but God how I hated that bastard and everything he believed.
To this day atheists make me sick when they spout pretensions of superiority
Sorry, its just the way I feel: I am only being honest about it. Thats best, isn’t it?
MPJ said,
September 18, 2007 at 8:09 am
To Emanuel Goldstein:
Of course, being honest is the best way to be in everything. I am sorry you had an uncle who caused your family so much pain.
But there are lots of good atheists too - that is the whole point of this site. Goodness is not tied into belief - unless the person has no inner morals and needs the rules of religion to hold their behavior in check. Sounds like your uncle should have had a religion - that might have helped his behavior.
But we all can think of examples of atrocities committed by religious people as well. Al-Qaeda and unscrupulous televangelists come to mind……again, belief systems do not insure that we behave ideally toward our fellow human beings.