Life, the whole of it, is the epitome of uncertainty. The direct repercussion of uncertainty is fear. Fear is the hallmark of the human condition, its distinctive peculiarity. An unavoidable part of being human. Fear itself is of various levels, of differing hierarchies. Basic survival ones to complex ones of an unfulfilled life, and then many in between; a whole spectrum.
Mark Twain wrote- “Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool”. An appropriate comment, given the laissez-faire of contemporary religion. Misogyny and chauvinism, human rights violation and racism, genocide and terrorism, all in the name of religion. Religion and its God, in effect, is providing the license, the privilege, the entitlement even, to malevolent people for their malevolent intents.
Can we have an objective moral framework in the absence of God’s commandments? Yes, we seem to think so. Must
As for making convincing arguments about God in the paradigm of reason, with A priori logic, let us test how effective
“ It would be more consistent if we called Bible the work of the demon than the work of God.
The role of religion as a moral reference point has proved controversial time and again. With so many religions, having contra
Religion has died the death of any possible benevolence and good will, mainly due to oversimplification. Oversimplification from reductionism. By benevolence, I am not