It's Good Friday people, and if the fact that you can't go down to the bottle shop to buy a case of beer or bottle of wine isn't annoying enough there's always the annual stupid statement from a religious figure to get the blood boiling.
I like to think that in the run up to Easter each year Sydney's religious leaders all put their names into a hat, and who ever gets picked out is given the privilege of saying the stupidest thing possible. This year the lucky one was Anthony Fisher, the Archbishop of Parramatta.
Fisher thinks that all the bad that happened in the world during the last century was the result of atheism; the Holocaust, Stalin's regime in the USSR and Pol Pot in Cambodia, all the result of atheism.
Now, unlike Mr Fisher here, I'm not going say that religion is the cause of all evil, even if some is religiously motivated, I can recognise that religious charities do a world of good, and that there could be a worse set of rules to live by than the 10 Commandments.
P.S. Even though it was somewhat satisfying to take the moral high road in this post, I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't let me portray believers as people who talk to their imaginary friend in the sky.
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Religious charities do a world of good, but there are also many non-religious charities out there such as Oxfam International, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and UNICEF to name just a few. If the only reason you are involved in a charity is out of fear of punishment in hell then that is hardly moral.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to the 10 commandments, surely these are arbitrary rules that we would have otherwise come across. No clan in the world would have survived evolution if they did not know they shouldn't kill for no reason. Also if they are the ten most important commandments how come there is no mention of rape or slavery?