tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22832300.post5779005446288430037..comments2023-10-06T13:31:37.217+05:30Comments on Lost in Geekdom: Violent AtheismGeekBeyondRedemptionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972222507297532413noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22832300.post-19249127219209525442010-04-27T22:47:46.140+05:302010-04-27T22:47:46.140+05:30i strongly disagree with you on your idea that hum...i strongly disagree with you on your idea that human nature does not include the greed for power and money. It does. why would being rich matter then? people have always had conflicts, even before religion was introduced to this world. conflicts were alive back before jesus, mohammed, david and buddha...humans have always fought for power..for control..over issues as small as domestic violence to larger ones such as world war 1 & 2...funny how 2 of the world's greatest wars had nothing to do with religion, eh? :)Raven R.http://monkey.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22832300.post-375337824221978342007-07-06T16:53:00.000+05:302007-07-06T16:53:00.000+05:30The problem with posing issues of violence or oppr...The problem with posing issues of violence or oppression as a an outcome of a single or even a dominant cause and offering rationality as an only or even dominant solution is that such an approach ignores that neither religion(as mankind has practiced it) nor rationality(as we understand it) have succeeded in being complete theories of the world and all its phenomena.<BR/><BR/>There are evoultionary explanations for violence.There are some explanations,I believe,that are emerging that justify collaboration as having some evolutionary advantage.Do compassion and violence have no known rational basis outside evolution?<BR/><BR/>Religion,at least,has the antidotes to the very problem that it inadvertantly creates.To throw it out may amount to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.<BR/><BR/>What exactly it is in religions that creates the fringe groups is worth reflecting upon.To my mind it is the inability of religious institutions and practices to evolve themselves to changing conditions.Generalising it further it is the inability of any set of practices that have the dubious glory of getting instituitionalised.<BR/><BR/>Has science done any better?<BR/><BR/>May be not!Else why would there be a necessity to invent the word paradigm?googler_morphs_to_bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573347704825486904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22832300.post-57660733397016913862007-02-18T09:35:00.000+05:302007-02-18T09:35:00.000+05:30Thanks for your comment.Nowhere in the blog have I...Thanks for your comment.<BR/><BR/>Nowhere in the blog have I suggested that religion is the root-cause of all or even most violence and suffering. Nowhere have I said that Science has the answer to all questions.<BR/><BR/>What I do say is that rationality is the tool to find answers to all questions.<BR/><BR/>It is not human nature to fight against someone - unless there is a reason - unless there is oppression. Religion has been the cause for that oppression and injustice for a very, very, long time.<BR/><BR/>While destroying religion will certainly not solve every conflict - imagine that the middle-east crisis was solved, the Kashmir problem never happened, the IRA never flared up, the Taliban did not destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas. The world would certainly be a better place.<BR/><BR/>Religion provides an excuse for fringe lunatics to legitimize their aspirations.<BR/><BR/>I would like to see that excuse wiped out.GeekBeyondRedemptionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972222507297532413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22832300.post-3684816298635379462007-02-18T02:33:00.000+05:302007-02-18T02:33:00.000+05:30Came across this blog surfing the web on a snowy S...Came across this blog surfing the web on a snowy Saturday afternoon. I think the argument that religion is the root-cause of most violence and suffering is somewhat flawed. Also, I believe that even if religion were not to exist and people believed in, say, Science as the answer to all the questions, we would have invented some alternate reason to fight against each other. That is simply human nature. Besides, a large number of current world conflicts have no base in religion (ex: sri lanka, north korea, north east india, ...)<BR/><BR/>PS: I used to be an atheist for the first 21 years of my life (now, I am spiritual but still don't believe in religion).Master Of Tensorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577700099682168959noreply@blogger.com