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Yes, visiting to pray for them and even touch them with 'healing hands'. That's how they'll catch it and spread it when they come back |
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I plead with pastors not to visit Ebola afflicted areas. You'll just catch it and pass it on to the innocent market woman and other innocents who have faith in you, and then it will spread to the rest of the country. Please DO NOT make the same mistake religious leaders made with the bubonic plague in Europe. You saw how that ended? Please, this is Africa, it would be worse here. |
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This is mine:
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Hmm... Atheists here? |
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As an Atheist, I can relate to the OP. I would have told him to just go with it as far as he can, till his mom learns to deal with it. I still join my family to attend their church and it's programs because those times are the only times except for holidays where everyone can come together. I may not share the same beliefs as they do, but I won't let that interfere with my family time. My love for my family is greater than childish arguments over why I don't believe. A church member once approached me and I told him I was an Atheist, and he said he'd observed I don't act like a member even though I was born in the church and both my parents and their siblings are leaders/elders in the church. With time, more people knew I'm atheist, and learned to live with it. |
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Morality is not connected to religion. We do not need religion to be good. Human morality has a Darwinian explanation: altruistic genes, selected through the process of evolution, give people natural empathy. Would you commit murder, rape or robbery if you knew that no God existed? Only very few people would answer "yes", which undermines the claim that religion is needed to make us behave morally. If you take a survey of the history of morality, you will find a moral Zeitgeist (the characteristic of an age) that continually evolves in society, generally progressing toward liberalism. As it progresses, this moral consensus influences how religious leaders interpret their holy writings. In the past, with support from holy writings, it was okay to own slaves, to commit atrocities against prisoners of war, refuse rights to certain people based on race, culture etc, but in modern times, those acts are viewed as morally wrong. Morality does not originate from the Bible or any other holy book, rather our moral progress informs what part of the Bible Christians and other religious groups accept and what they now dismiss. Inspired by Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" |
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Morality is not connected to religion. We do not need religion to be good. Human morality has a Darwinian explanation: altruistic genes, selected through the process of evolution, give people natural empathy. Would you commit murder, rape or robbery if you knew that no God existed? Only very few people would answer "yes", which undermines the claim that religion is needed to make us behave morally. If you take a survey of the history of morality, you will find a moral Zeitgeist (the characteristic of an age) that continually evolves in society, generally progressing toward liberalism. As it progresses, this moral consensus influences how religious leaders interpret their holy writings. In the past, with support from holy writings, it was okay to own slaves, to commit atrocities against prisoners of war, refuse rights to certain people based on race, culture etc, but in modern times, those acts are viewed as morally wrong. Morality does not originate from the Bible or any other holy book, rather our moral progress informs what part of the Bible Christians and other religious groups accept and what they now dismiss. Inspired by Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" |
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