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In reply to the discussion: Russell Brand: Richard Dawkins Is a Proponent of “Atheistic Tyranny” For Rejecting the Supernatural [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)14. The whole is the sum of it's parts.
How can you talk about "religion as a whole". The diversity is immense.
Of course people can be altruistic without religion, but the fact is that governmental and secular organizations just don't provide the safety net that religious organizations do throughout the world. I would love to see the day when that happened, but at this point they are take care of the most desperate among us.
I agree that it shouldn't be held up as the sole source of kindness and morality, but it should not be dismissed as a source either.
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Russell Brand: Richard Dawkins Is a Proponent of “Atheistic Tyranny” For Rejecting the Supernatural [View all]
rug
Nov 2014
OP
"Karl Marx Marries the Dalai Lama — for Dummies" Great clip, but couldn't help but think of...
NYC_SKP
Nov 2014
#1
I wasn't trying to be dogmatic. Would you mind adding examples to increase the count?
DetlefK
Nov 2014
#5
Good people do good things. Sometimes they are religious and sometimes they are not.
cbayer
Nov 2014
#11
I took "religion as a whole" to mean "groups with a belief in some sort of deity". not an attempt
djean111
Nov 2014
#17
I did not say I believed that. Not Once. I was just responding to the objection to the phrase
djean111
Nov 2014
#31
Which you go with is up to you, but neither has credentials when it comes to religion.
cbayer
Nov 2014
#25
There are no "credentials" when it comes to believing in a deity or not. None.
djean111
Nov 2014
#29
What neither one can do is expound on what anybody ELSE should believe. Or not believe.
AlbertCat
Nov 2014
#34
By the way, you have been quote mined and are the subject of a post in the A/A group.
cbayer
Nov 2014
#37
Sorry, your revisionist history about why you were banned is incorrect.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2014
#44
Russell Brand also refuses to vote in elections because all the parties are supposedly equally bad.
LeftishBrit
Nov 2014
#33