"Religion is evil because of all the bad things that have been done in the name of religion."6/4/2015 This is a common complaint that I hear from unbelievers all the time. There are a few thing we need to address while we answer this. First we need to define a few terms; religion and evil. Religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, purpose and nature of the universe.The word "evil" does not even make sense in an atheistic universe because the very word requires a standard for what is morally right or wrong, so when he or she says that word, they are begging the question. This statement also commits another fallacy called a hasty generalization when that person lumps all religions into one group an says all religions are evil.(If you really want to be mean,just say that atheistic evolution is by definition a religion too.) What they should say is that some religions are evil, then they won't be committing the fallacy of hasty generalization.But they still have the problem with defining evil in a atheistic universe. Ill be talking about that in another article when ill be talking about the moral argument.
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Yasmina Mickas
5/7/2017 08:55:59 pm
Huh?
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2/12/2019 12:08:22 pm
If religion should be eschewed because some practitioners have committed evil deeds then I assume that you do not attend the cinema because the audience includes murderers, blasphemers, child abuses, traffic laws violators, &c.
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