@saltwag @Qessential_ZA Ur a joke. You call him narrow-minded and the internet respectable. This must be the joke of 2019. You are narrow-minded. Satanic? Why would your god create his own competition, was he stupid or smoking weed on a Sunday. Maybe he was bored killing people and raping kids.
@Danlza What an #asshole. The #church presents itself so holy but deep inside they are money grabbing mind-controlling insecure valueless and moralless.
Ignorance & fear centres around religion. The uncertainty of man's relation to God is the motive which attaches man to religion. He is afraid in darkness—physical or moral. His fear is habitual & becomes a necessity; he believes that he lacks something if he had nothing to fear.
The current religion is indirectly adverse to morals, because it is adverse to the freedom of the intellect. But it is also directly adverse to morals by inventing spurious and bastard virtues.
We believe what we believe, not because we have been convinced by such and such arguments, but because we are of such and such a disposition. (C. E. M. JOAD.)
That religion in the past has produced suffering incalculable and has been the most significant obstacle in advance of secular knowledge is a fact too well attested to by history to be denied by any sincere and unbiased intelligent man.
My church taught that knowledge should not interfere with faith because God’s wisdom is higher than man’s foolish thinking.
After decades, I decided facts matter more than faith.
Beware of any approach that tells you to ignore evidence to protect current beliefs.
#ExChristian