Understanding Religion's Relationship To Human Social Systems

Today, I stumbled across this comment: "In atheism, there is no concept of objective good and evil. As Dawkins states, at bottom, 'there is no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference'. So it is rather ironic that atheists express moral outrage over something their worldview does not permit to exist. Yet, by acknowledging any form of injustice, they are implicitly agreeing to the existence of a moral law — and, consequently, a moral lawgiver." --- In reply, I offer this: First, let's open with a rebuttal offered by the renowned scientist and philosopher Steven Pinker.  I'd also point out that "theists" don't actually get their morals from any "God". All human moral concepts and values come from humans.  Humans are the only sentient beings who had a hand in writing bibles, qurans, and all other alleged "holy texts".  Even if we assume (for the sake of argument) that a Super-Being was personally i...

 An Introduction To Christianity.  Why "Christianity didn't do NOTHING wrong" Our journey begins with this YouTube video. My own thoughts about that video are mixed. It makes great points. Granted,  rather than having the old man speak for himself,  the more accurate illustration would be several old men claiming (without evidence) to speak for "The" Old Man. However, I am reminded that Darkmatter2525 doesn't usually bother to clarify this either; since everyone familiar with these issues already realizes how it really works.  --  In response to this short video,  one man (a Christian) wrote: " In the actual story the "children" ran through the house like nothing happened and lived of him, destroying and subjugating him I'm talking about the Roman pagans of course, and how Christianity humanized the world by reforming whatever was that Christianity didn't do NOTHING wrong" --- I am translating that to mean this: --- "In th...