More than 70 young people were arrested on Saturday by security forces on charges of organising a gay wedding in north-east Nigeria, where such unions are criminalised and violence against the LGBT+ community is widespread.
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ―Steven Weinberg
Okay so you don’t think religion can make evil things good, you coulda just said that.
Was just trying to spark some conversation around the context of the statement, which itself seems silly to me on the surface.
Cause I dunno, I’m an atheist, but I wonder if there’s ever any edge cases of religion helping people, or if you’d all rather just shit over it like we always do.
I mean, religion likely was successful because in early agrarian societies having arbitrary reasons to bury the dead and burn the leftovers of butchered animals had hygiene benefits, so it brought some benefits to humanity in a given time and place.
But maybe not the best idea to cling to obsolete ideas past the point they are beneficial, particularly when other piggybacking ideas are actively harmful.
So then according to Steven only religion can make evil people do good, inverse law. Thoughts?
“Inverse Law”? You do realize there’s no such thing, right?
If a man can eat a hamburger, does the “inverse law” mean a hamburger can eat a man?
Lemmy is wild sometimes…
If a cow had the chance, it would eat you and your whole family.
How did you know me and my family are made of grass!?!
Privacy truly is dead.
Thanks Obama
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Okay so you don’t think religion can make evil things good, you coulda just said that.
Was just trying to spark some conversation around the context of the statement, which itself seems silly to me on the surface.
Cause I dunno, I’m an atheist, but I wonder if there’s ever any edge cases of religion helping people, or if you’d all rather just shit over it like we always do.
I mean, religion likely was successful because in early agrarian societies having arbitrary reasons to bury the dead and burn the leftovers of butchered animals had hygiene benefits, so it brought some benefits to humanity in a given time and place.
But maybe not the best idea to cling to obsolete ideas past the point they are beneficial, particularly when other piggybacking ideas are actively harmful.
Wow… What a horrendously stupid fucking postulate.
Just like the original statement. Now you’re getting it.