I feel like we’re lacking the initial message here, the religious person was responding to.
Throwing that priest rape strawman at the end, is a rhetorical tool, but clearly is not addressing whatever the religious person was talking about. So this shit post is disingenuous, and a logical fallacy what about ism.
If we’re going to deconstruct people’s positions, we should at least be honest about it, and give the original context
Uh oh… Someone let in an Internet debater!
According to Google it’s a comment on an r/watchpeopledieinside post with a clip from this (prank) video. I don’t know which part of the video was clipped since the post is deleted but… yeah. Even if it wasn’t a prank, looks like it’s just people malding over promiscuity.
Which invisible man in the sky do you believe in?
None. I have no belief in a deity.
The religious person made a pretty black and white comment. Maybe there is a lot of nuance in the context, but this comment has no nuance itself. It’s going from whatever context to making a general comment on the lack of religion and what it does to morality.
They said " That’s what lack of religion does to people"… So we’re missing the does in this context. We don’t know what they’re actually trying to say.
They did say it: “there is no moral anchor anymore.”
the original commenter expressed religion is necessary for a ‘moral anchor’, and that isn’t true, and that’s what this is about.
anybody who throws up religion as a catch-all for solving problems is just asking for examples of religion causing problems.
What was the context that the original commenter was responding to?
Were they responding to studies where children and young people brought up in communities with a sense of self-identity have better outcomes? Religion could be a stand-in for community involvement.
Responding to somebody’s comment in a vacuum, is disingenuous, it misses the context, and we could be missing the entire point. We don’t have enough data.
And most importantly, this method of rhetoric does not convert people to your position.
i don’t have access to that person’s thoughts, but the statement looks clear to me. there’s always more context, you could grind it down to the sub-atomic if you want.
studies where children and young people brought up in communities with a sense of self-identity have better outcomes. Religion could be a stand-in for community involvement.
this is the position you were angling for, so you could have said that. I don’t disagree with the first part exactly, but religion is not what I would choose as a stand-in. It’s more like a substitute for science and arts education, including basic philosophy.
I wasn’t angling for any religious position. I just think it’s unfair to take somebody’s comment out of context, slap a zinger on it, and then make a social media post about how you got’em.
At best it’s lazy, at worst it’s misleading. it encourages sophistry.
As a kid, I had many legitimate questions about religion (my mother was very christian), and all of them got smothered with a simple “you’re too young, you wouldn’t understand / it’s too complex / you’re missing context”. Turns out, she was simply wrong about a shitload, and didn’t want to admit it.
Religion bad any upvotes
I don’t like the concept of organized religion either
Yet u didnt upvote 🤬
Which invisible man in the sky do you believe in?
Erroring.
Kindly f&!k off.
Buuuuuurn
I really like the way Jmike put it at 20:40 in this show
In 1 Samuel 15:3, when god commands the Amelekites to be–infants to be slaughtered, that would be “good” under your view. That would be a good thing. So long as it’s commanded by the thing–that’s not morality at all, that’s obedience. There’s nothing there about what someone should or should not do. The moral facts can just change on a whim. I don’t understand this high ground of morality from theists when theirs is so vacuous and devoid of anything intrinsic to the actual actions. It’s actually an extrinsic thing. What makes, like, throwing someone off a building “wrong” is if god puts this extrinsic notion that it’s wrong, this command, not that the intrinsic action had anything to do with it, right? It’s so divorced from how we actually deal with ethics. So I don’t get this move of putting the theist at this high moral ground, I dont get it.
From a religious viewpoint, I believe that many theists would would say that their god is perfect and the standard of morality to which everything is compared. Should something waver from this standard, it is immoral. A theist that believes in an unchanging god might then reason that a non theist, or a thiest that believes in a god that changes or is not eternal in its attributes, is not capable of operating under a seperate moral code because their code would be subject to change as they or their god changes. One is capable of acting morally if their actions fall under the fixed code, but their actions would not be moral because of their own seperate code, but because they coincide with the higher code.
Looking back to the example given from 1 Samuel, a Christian would likely reason that the actions of the Hebrew army were moral because punishment of “evil”, as defined by their god, is a moral action. Things are very rarely black and white. While most would say that killing, for example, is not good, it can be justified and moral should the conditions satisfy the proper conditions.
If absolutely any theist I know tells me that it is okay to murder an innocent child because their parents belong to a region that treated your people badly, and because someone said that God said to, I would cut that monster out of my life faster than I typed this comment.
Again, it isn’t a moral framework to say “whatever God says to do is good.” That’s just obedience. It says nothing about the morality of any given action, and provides us with no framework on which to build our moral code. It’s just saying “that guy said he wants these kids dead, so the right thing to do is kill these kids.” Absolutely hideous.
If absolutely any theist I know tells me that it is okay to murder an innocent child because their parents belong to a region that treated your people badly, and because someone said that God said to,
Obviously the child wouldn’t be innocent in that case /s
- I’ll kill this guy!
- *realizes religion forbids killing*
- Sheeeeeeet
That’s exactly how religion works, right? RIGHT??? 😅
You don’t need any religion for a “moral compass”, but basic ethical principles.
For the most time religions were (and are still) used as a means of power to either suppress your own population (see most islamic countries today) or divide people and justify wars (see catholics and protestants / orthodox in the past).
Countless people were killed in the name of some “religion”.
You could’ve also written:
“… Divide people and justify wars (also Islamic countries today)…”
That’s true.
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You can beat your slaves on Monday, but if they don’t wake up by Wednesday, you’ll be punished.
Sorry, “indentured servants.” You can beat your indentured servants. That you bought and legally own.
Perhaps taking remedial English lessons would would help THEM realise their own “erroring”.
Idiot.
Isn’t a person that is only kept from doing evil by being threatened with damnation … just an evil person?
It’s a really weird argument. I never even thought about murdering anyone, and never needed a sky wizard to tell me so. Imagine thinking about strangling your neighbour every day if it weren’t for that pesky bible.
I think if we’re going to categorize people as “good” or “evil”, we should distinguish between their thoughts and actions. Otherwise, we’re playing Thought Police.
In other words, I think a good answer to your question is, “Potentially.” or “Quite possibly, but we will never know for sure, because things played out differently.”
Well, evil oriented, perhaps then.
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
Christopher Hitchens
Sounds a lot like Steven Weinberg
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
Or are all those who spread terror and hatred for religious reasons simply not religious enough. Of course, religion does not necessarily have to degenerate into violence, but it is not at all suitable as a measure of morality, as history shows us.
i dont need the threat of eternal punishment to be a good person
wtf is wrong with these people (rhetorical question)
To much religion clearly
I don’t know… seems to me like there’s no sin enumerated in Bible that believer would be unable to somehow explain as a pro god action. God’s mercy and 10 commandments are concepts that appear to be paradoxical to each other.
Christians have 10 commandments and can’t follow them, most often even won’t pretend to, because… checks notes … god will forgive them… Imagine the talk with saint Peter after death — ”so what do you have to say for yourself?“ — ”well, I went to church and shit, and God forgives“ — ”in my experience he really responds to arrogance and taunting“.
I love the story of the 10 commandments — so he went up a mountain, sat there for way too long (I guess good clubs up there, after all he comes back later), came down with the tablets (something about killing or not written on it), didn’t like what he saw, smash the priceless religious relic and proceeded to murder everyone. Any true crime podcast would tell you that is destruction of evidence and premeditation, also clearly psychotic tyrannical religious cult leader kind of situation. Appears to me he ”saved“ them from Egypt for his own amusement.
As an aside — Jews have over 600 commandments sourced from the VERY SAME BOOK.
You forgot the part of the story everyone glosses over; he went back to get another copy of the tablets and the new set have different rules. The new set is the one called “The Ten Commandments” in the story, not the one most people thing of.
Judaism fascinates me with their rules. From an outsiders perspective, it’s like a constant game of cat and mouse with God trying to find loopholes in their laws.
jew: “murder is a sin!” god: “but if i let a volcano erupt then its natural causes” jew:
if priests would simply dress in drag and talk about sex change operations with children they’d get along alot better with the other side
Obsession with children’s genitals being the one constant in the priests’ lives, apparently.
and neoliberals writ large
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