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multigraincracker

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10. What religion of your choice "regard the universe as self-existing and not created."
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 08:52 PM
Apr 2022

Isn't that the essence of non-religious thought?
Of course you can bring out example of evil and disregard those mid-19th Century that brought about the end of slavery, like the Quakers and others. Oh, that doesn't count. Even the Catholic Church has the Franciscans that have done great things for the poor. Look up St.Francis and St.Clair and their devotion to the poor and animals, not perfect, if that is what you are looking for.
Now lets blame some famous Atheists and tie them to all Atheists. Start with Ho Chi Minh who killed 3.5 million. You must love that Atheists Joseph Stalin, deaths, 10-20 million. By the way Hitler was an Atheist that used the RCC, because he could. He was not a devout Catholic. He was a cynical Darwinist Atheist who banned Christianity after using state of the art technology to efficiently kill thousands of Catholic priest and the head of the Lutheran Church.

I think most would consider Jainism a religion. Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching a book of philosophy that became the "religion" of Eastern countries. You might be interested in reading The Tao of Physics, a great book.

Starting to sound a lot like a gray area. Neither all good or all bad. Unless you wish to deny truth.

Why would I ask Ask ANY evangelical, about putting humans before god? The whole point of Humanism is to deny gods. That is my point, sorry you missed it. It'd be like ask any Atheist to deny Stalin.

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