David M. Payne

You make some great points here sullster. Over two thousand years of evil done in the name of religion and the old free will defense is still perceived as valid by the faithful. Pitiful how long they can hold on to such weak constructs like “God” and “religion”. I keep hoping that humanity will turn the corner esp. in the US, the most powerful home of oppressive right wing radical religions. For me they are just behind the Muslims right now as a clear and present danger to the survival of us all. I fear a future where more and more we are faced with fanatical branches of all three Abrahamic religions slugging it out, and using means that end up destroying themselves and secular humanity in the process.
Although I first came here to focus on my political and economic work, religion was right there too. Its sites like this that give me hope for the future, I think we are getting good exposure for the cause of humanity, secular reason and metaphysical naturalism, as well as a little economic and political coverage. If we can survive the onslaught from the dangerous and destructive religious zealots, we may be able to survive the death throws of religion as a power over the well being of humanity. It is fading in Europe, hopefully it will fade here as the absurdity of it all finally sinks in to more and more of the people here.

David

David M. Payne

You raise some interesting questions here dwp, but like you say, there will be no answer from our theist friends here. They favor the more obtuse stuff that is easly quibbled over, not the more direct questions that have a point they tend to find themselves impaled on when they try to jump on it.

David