religion as cause was islamic authority over women bill conner bil okcforum osrhe edu writes my stuff deleted i don t have to make outrageous claims about religion s affecting and effecting history for the purpsoe of a a all i have to do point out that many claims made here are wrong and do nothing to validate atheism bill you seem to have erroneously assumed that this board has as its sole purpose the validation of atheism it doesn t this board is used to discuss atheism as a philosophy to share posters experiences regarding atheism to debunk various theisms and theism as a whole to share resources relating to atheism and even to socialize with others with similar views and of course with the number of theists who come here to preach it is also used to argue the case for atheism at no time have i made any statement that religion was the sole cause of anything what i have done is point out that those who do make that kind of claim are mistaken usually deliberately if you want to accuse people of lying please do so directly the phrase deliberately mistaken is rather oxymoronic to credit religion with the awesome power to dominate history is to misunderstand human nature the function of religion and of course history i believe that those who distort history in this way know exaclty what they re doing and do it only for affect the two forms of theism most often discussed here these days are christianity and islam both of these claim to make their followers into good people and claim that much of benefit to humanity has been accomplished through their faiths imho they are right the american friends service committee quaker catholic relief services bread for the world salvation army soup kitchens and mother theresa spring to mind can someone with more knowledge of islam supply the names of some analagous islamic groups when mother theresa claims that her work is an outgrowth of her christianity i believe her her form of theism ascribes to her deity such a benevolence toward humanity that it would be wrong not to care for those in need the point is that such a philosophy does have the power to change the behavior of individuals if it is widespread enough it can change societies the same works for the horrors of history to claim that christianity had little to do with the crusades or the inquisition is to deny the awesome power that comes from faith in an absolute what it seems you are doing twisting the reasonable statement that religion was never the solitary cause of any evil into the unreasonable statement that religion has had no evil impacts on history that is absurd scott sauyet ssauyet eagle wesleyan edu
