Moon
09-14-2011, 05:45 PM
This from Amanda Marcotte, in AlterNet:
Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it,
especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this:
When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you
and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where
the rain came from.
Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it,
especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this:
When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you
and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where
the rain came from.