I wouldn't equate JW elders with Christianity. Although it's an easy mistake to make.
Too right, i'm always getting my cults mixed up.
I seem to remember learning in history lessons in school that Stalin tried to eradicate religion, including Christianity, from Russia and it resulted in the loss of millions of lives. I'm assuming you're suggesting something very similar when you describe it as needing to be "fixed". How do you fix something that is innately in human beings without murdering them? You're coming across as stringently zealous as I'm sure you'd accuse the JW elders as being.
Religion needs to be fixed because it causes so much trouble and ultimately is the perpetuation of false hope & an incorrect view of history & the place therein of certain groups of people. But of course i would never do it the way Stalin did, since he wasn't trying to get rid of religion, but rather ANYTHING that threatened his own supremecy, and this just happened to include religion, but it included many other things too. So there is a huge difference. And it's irrelevant anyway, the fact that Stalin was a class A dipshit doesn't mean God exists or atheists are all evil. No more than the existence of muslim suicide bombers means that all muslims are evil. Not all religious people are evil no, but they're still all wrong.
My way of getting rid of religion would be through a mixture of education & the reducing of religion's free ride in society. The more people learn, the less likely they will be to join a religion & of course religious organisations will struggle to maintain themselves once they lose their tax exempt status & other such perks.
Quite why believing in Jesus and doing your best to love your neighbours and your enemies is a "very bad thing" doesn't actually make any logical sense
You're damn right it doesn't. But of course, that isn't what i was calling a bad thing. What i was calling a bad thing was the thing that you were doing, which was far from 'doing your best to love your neighbours'.
You were preaching, pure & simple. It was inappropriate & poorly timed. And i called you out on it.
End of.
and hints at a level of antipathy towards another way of thinking that runs through the veins of only the most dogmatic. But then, Dawkins does describe love as being a part of evolution that's mis-firing.
Science tells us how things work, it's the real deal, the answer isn't always comforting, but then what good would science be if all it did was tickle your ears.
Have you read Dawkins view of eugenics, Hitler and what he felt Hitler was trying to accomplish?
Yes, he is very much against Hitler, as am i & pretty much most other people on earth. And don't go & equate eugenics with Darwinism, that has been debunked & is a strawman. Animal eugenics existed long before Darwin.
If it's ok with you, I'll follow the teachings of Jesus.
If it's ok with you, i'll think for myself.
Also if you were able to put over your argument for your own choice of faith without name calling that would be decent.
I.e. it wouldn't upset baby Jesus?
