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antfromtashkent on 07 April 2009
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WessleWoggle said:
antfromtashkent said:
WessleWoggle said:
thanny said:
...why do atheists even care? if there is no god, then its not exactly gonna hurt anyone if people believe there is one...

Wrong. Some ideas of god can cause a lot of harm. The idea of god in general is useless to society.

Religion doesn't do anything that couldn't come from other sources.

 

 

 ummmm... no i do not agree... The "idea" of god helps people to keep them on track.... if you live your life believing there is no punishment for what you do that can only hurt the society.

 

 

The idea of god is not needed for that. Ever heard of karma? Also some people don't need the idea of god to not cause harm, but if god is the only thing keeping you from killing people, then by all means feel free to keep believing.

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म kárma (help·info), kárman- "act, action, performance"[1]; Pali: kamma) is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies.

That is a religeous term......