Internet Overuser
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Enough is enough, I've had it with these "God did it" and "Y'all go to Hell if you don't join us" statements infesting on science, metaphysics and our educational system! Sure, Christianity provides us with the "Love thy neighbor as thyself" morality, and there are a lot of scientists who are Christian, but why does the Christian theory of creationism and Goddidit never keep its dirty, old hands off metaphysics and science? If Christianity explains a way of life and a way of ethics, why does it try to force itself unto science? Science is enough to explain why we exist, without the requirement of divine intervention. I expect some of you to say that God existed before the Big Bang, where the laws of physics break down, but why does Christianity not remain at the Big Bang and still try to force itself into science as a whole? Or, better yet, what if this creator God is in fact nothing of what you have expected in the bible?
Is metaphysics really necessary for a moral life? Look at Buddhism. Buddhists focus more on alleviating suffering and reaching nirvana than trying to push itself into science, and in buddhist metaphysics gods, intelligent design and first causes are not fundamental. If you want a more contemporary way of moral living without theistic metaphysics, look at secular humanism. Secular humanism espouses reason and science, but it focuses on the way humans can live happy, ethical and functional lives, judging ethics on their ability to enhance human well-being. Secular humanism is a philosophy of ethics that does not include God in the equation but it is not Communism, since even though Communism is atheist, it degrades the life of the human individual.
Christianity might be necessary for moral, functional, ethical living, but why do we need God in the equation when the historical Jesus can do as well without the unnecessary, unscientific, overly memetic and headache-inducing "Goddidit" and "Y'all go to Hell" statements, like Buddha and the Secular Humanists? Seems like your morals are based more on Orwellian fear rather than attaining nirvana, because what better way to force people into morality than an all-knowing Big Brother who threatens you with eternal punishment if you don't obey and worship him?
Is metaphysics really necessary for a moral life? Look at Buddhism. Buddhists focus more on alleviating suffering and reaching nirvana than trying to push itself into science, and in buddhist metaphysics gods, intelligent design and first causes are not fundamental. If you want a more contemporary way of moral living without theistic metaphysics, look at secular humanism. Secular humanism espouses reason and science, but it focuses on the way humans can live happy, ethical and functional lives, judging ethics on their ability to enhance human well-being. Secular humanism is a philosophy of ethics that does not include God in the equation but it is not Communism, since even though Communism is atheist, it degrades the life of the human individual.
Christianity might be necessary for moral, functional, ethical living, but why do we need God in the equation when the historical Jesus can do as well without the unnecessary, unscientific, overly memetic and headache-inducing "Goddidit" and "Y'all go to Hell" statements, like Buddha and the Secular Humanists? Seems like your morals are based more on Orwellian fear rather than attaining nirvana, because what better way to force people into morality than an all-knowing Big Brother who threatens you with eternal punishment if you don't obey and worship him?