Are we genetically predetermined to demonize other people groups, who believe differently than we do?
Are we somehow hard wired to “hate” others? To mock them? To ridicule them?
WE are the human race – WE are in this together. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, Intelligent and Ignorant. WE are no better than our neighbor. WE are no worse than our neighbor.
One man kills another. One man rapes a woman. A woman murders another and cuts out her fetus. A man robs a store and kills 3 people – motive unknown. A man shoots up a fitness club – motive loneliness.
If circumstances had been different, if things had gone a different way, perhaps we might have been that person. Many small things add up to the whole of who we become.
People demonize people of religion. Religious people demonize non-religious people. IT SUCKS.
All the while, the “demon-izers” claim to be “better” than the “demons”.
That man who shot up the fitness club in PA made a diary entry and in this diary entry he talked about God.
The intellectual heavy weights (specifically *some of* the commentators) over at Pharyngula (who espouse scientific method as one of the highest principles of living) choose to make a case of this as “religion is bad”. GIVE ME A BREAK.
Pharyngula: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/08/another_mass_murder.php
NOW, to be fair, many Christians are just as bad. Two sides of the same freaking coin and they don’t even know it.
Well, I was going to post a link to a Christian blog abusing Atheists, but they seem to be harder to find. (I know they exist, but they don’t seem to be as prolific as the anti-Christian/anti-Religion blogs – if you would like to submit one, I’ll update this post with the appropriate entry). ** UPDATE: What I really need is a Christian blog post where the commenters (?) / commentators are bashing atheism/atheists as ignorant, evil, despicable people as PZ’s blog post itself doesn’t do that – that is found in the comments.
Here some purported Christian blogs that would be representative of the “bad side” of Christianity (the other side of the coin) (DISCLAIMER: I have my doubts these are truly Christian bloggers and may be pretenders much like “Angry Xtian” was but to be fair, I’ll include them)
I SINCERELY HOPE that neither group is truly representative of their groups as a whole. God helps us if they are.
Chris
(I’ve made some corrections to this post as it was pointed out to me that my post lumped all of the people at Pharyngula into the same “boat” so to speak)
