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Originally posted by Macowm
reply to post by BLUEMAGIC
And to say it is hopeless to educate them makes you an even bigger part of the problem. WE ARE ALL HUMANS. Do you honestly think you are any better than the "uneducated masses"? NO. You are not.
IN FACT by basically saying that you are superior to those who follow religion, you are making your non-belief a religion in itself. As a man who doesn't believe in religion, then you MUST understand the nature versus nurture argument, no? Some people are just born with less intelligence, some people are born in an environment that brainwashes them, some people experience traumatic events that turn them to religion for whatever reason. That means, essentially, that you are LUCKY to think the way that you think. There is really nothing more to it than that.
So being as lucky as you are, and knowing that you are no better than your fellow humans who ARE religious, will you just throw away all of that privilege and dismiss those in need as "hopeless"? If so you are even worse than the uneducated masses. It is your duty to inform them, teach them, and at the same time be accepting of their beliefs while still leading them to truth.
Originally posted by Macowm
reply to post by BLUEMAGIC
And to say it is hopeless to educate them makes you an even bigger part of the problem. WE ARE ALL HUMANS. Do you honestly think you are any better than the "uneducated masses"? NO. You are not.
IN FACT by basically saying that you are superior to those who follow religion, you are making your non-belief a religion in itself. As a man who doesn't believe in religion, then you MUST understand the nature versus nurture argument, no? Some people are just born with less intelligence, some people are born in an environment that brainwashes them, some people experience traumatic events that turn them to religion for whatever reason. That means, essentially, that you are LUCKY to think the way that you think. There is really nothing more to it than that.
So being as lucky as you are, and knowing that you are no better than your fellow humans who ARE religious, will you just throw away all of that privilege and dismiss those in need as "hopeless"? If so you are even worse than the uneducated masses. It is your duty to inform them, teach them, and at the same time be accepting of their beliefs while still leading them to truth.