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Anonymous wrote:Religion is a cancer on society and without it we would not be in this mess.
If you are a believer, this is your fault, whether you agree or not. Without the religious right there would be no power for the extreme right.
Time to put your stupid bronze-age myths aside and live like an evolved human.
You can do it.
+10 billion. Christopher Hitchens was right: Religion Poisons Everything. He also talked about how 'Moderate" christians give cover and legitimacy to the extremists. HE is all right about that. It is beyond time for us to not only stop with this religious tribalism and the beliefs themselves, as they are, as we speak, distracting us all from evolving as actual human beings that can make the world better. Religion has never done that. I wonder why???
You’re about 20 years behind. New atheism is over. Hitchens os dead, Richard Dawkins now espouses “cultural” Christianity. New atheist Britain failed spectacularly and is transforming into what Hitchens hated even more than Christianity, a new Islamic society.
Immediate pp is WRONG. So what if Hitchens is dead? All people die - even Jesus Christ.
Richard Dawkins ALWAYS espoused cultural Christianity, as do I, because I love the music that has come from it. I also love the Cathedrals that were built many years ago, supposedly for the glory of god, but they are engineering feats of humans.
Atheist Britain hasn't failed at all. Been there lately? Its people are thriving - without God - and its cathedrals are full of tourists looking around.
Its people absolutely are not thriving. Wages, even when adjusted for living costs, are significantly lower than the US.
What society built those beautiful Cathedrals that you profess to admire so much? What society’s people created the enlightenment and led to the colleges that allow humans to build feats of engineering? (Hint: Christians) Did this crop up during the times of the indigenous pagan beliefs of the Western Europeans? Absolutely not. These human creations have only come from one human civilization.
Your right. It was the civilization that rewarded concentration of wealth and power which was used to lord over the peasants. That’s why those cathedrals were built. It was a display of power and advertising for the authoritarian church. Indigenous pagans made music and danced and made art just like anyone else but the Christians murdered them and used genocide to erase their cultural legacy. For you to now use that erasure as evidence that Christianity is righteous is probably one of the most perverse things I have read in a long while and that is truly a feat.
Cultural legacy of murder and violence and barely any rights for women outside of their fathers? Please. You idealize heathenism from your own ignorance.
Jesus' teaching had a noticeably positive and often radical impact on women, especially when you compare it to the cultural norms of Ist-century Jewish and Greco-Roman society.
He treated women as full moral and spiritual equals. In a time when women were often excluded from formal religious learning, Jesus Christ openly taught women, spoke with them in public, and treated them as capable of understanding spiritual truth.
-He taught women directly (like Mary sitting at his feet as a disciple-something normally reserved for men).
-He engaged them in serious theological conversation (e.g., the Samaritan woman at the well).
-He praised women's faith publicly.
This signaled: women are not spiritually inferior.
Jesus challenged double standards around sin and shame. One of the clearest examples is when a woman caught in adultery was brought to him. Instead of condemning her, Jesus shifted attention to the hypocrisy of her accusers.
-He protected her from public humiliation and execution.
-He acknowledged her wrongdoing without reducing her to it.
In that culture, women often bore the brunt of sexual shame. Jesus disrupted that pattern.
Jesus included women in his inner circle of followers. Women weren't just passive listeners-they were active supporters and participants in his ministry.
Examples:
Mary Magdalene
Joanna
Susanna
These women:
-Traveled with him
-Helped financially support the ministry.
-Were present at key moments when many male disciples fled.
This gave women a visible, active role in public religious life.
Jesus showed compassion toward marginalized women. Jesus consistently reached out to women who were socially rejected:
-Widows (economically vulnerable)
-The bleeding woman (ritually "unclean")
-Women labeled as sinners
Instead of avoiding them, he:
-Spoke to them directly
-Healed them
-Restored their dignity in public
Jesus challenged systems that pushed women to the margins.
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