He is spot on. This is why our country was founded on religious morals, but allowed people to have the freedom not to be, unlike the middle ages.
The idea is that believing something good, having something that everyone can agree is good, helps guide our hands and our feet to making good happen.
It's why the people who loudly proclaim themselves as Atheist (capitalized for emphasis, as this has become a new deity to them) are generally directly in opposition of the values our country was founded on.
Then those Atheists try to point at priests and whatnot who end up in the positions and use that position to commit evil as a reason for why religions are all evil.
They're not. Any religion that can preach peace in the face of opposition, violence, false prophets, cannot be evil.
Even if you do not believe personally -- or even if you find yourself more agnostic and feel like you should respect it in spite of a lack of the proof you're looking for -- if you can at least rationalize and understand that the messaging is good, the morals are worth listening to, you can use that to form a solid moral foundation and accomplish great things.
Rather than directly opposing the flow of the river until it overflows, you can walk alongside it until you reach your destination.
This is a very good post. I just want to add, that whoever claims to be an Atheist, is bound to the religion of science, there is no other way. Personally I was raised being catholic, but when left the church. Having looked at most religions I practice now the way the buddha teached. I find he more or less teaches the same as Jesus. Before you change the world, change yourself.
I don't necessarily agree, but I don't disagree either.
A lot of the best scientists in history were religious to some degree and science shouldn't be pitted against religion. That has been a deliberate move throughout more recent history.
He is spot on. This is why our country was founded on religious morals, but allowed people to have the freedom not to be, unlike the middle ages.
The idea is that believing something good, having something that everyone can agree is good, helps guide our hands and our feet to making good happen.
It's why the people who loudly proclaim themselves as Atheist (capitalized for emphasis, as this has become a new deity to them) are generally directly in opposition of the values our country was founded on.
Then those Atheists try to point at priests and whatnot who end up in the positions and use that position to commit evil as a reason for why religions are all evil.
They're not. Any religion that can preach peace in the face of opposition, violence, false prophets, cannot be evil.
Even if you do not believe personally -- or even if you find yourself more agnostic and feel like you should respect it in spite of a lack of the proof you're looking for -- if you can at least rationalize and understand that the messaging is good, the morals are worth listening to, you can use that to form a solid moral foundation and accomplish great things.
Rather than directly opposing the flow of the river until it overflows, you can walk alongside it until you reach your destination.
This is a very good post. I just want to add, that whoever claims to be an Atheist, is bound to the religion of science, there is no other way. Personally I was raised being catholic, but when left the church. Having looked at most religions I practice now the way the buddha teached. I find he more or less teaches the same as Jesus. Before you change the world, change yourself.
I don't necessarily agree, but I don't disagree either.
A lot of the best scientists in history were religious to some degree and science shouldn't be pitted against religion. That has been a deliberate move throughout more recent history.