On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
> In my opinion I think being atheistic would increase the chances of
> someone
> becoming evil or doing evil acts. I think this mainly because my
> beliefs
> have Satan as an active deceiver of mankind. If a person doesn't
> have God
> to help counteract that, it'll be easier to trick them into
> thinking what
> they're doing is just fine.
An alternative POV: "With or without religion, you would have good
people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for
good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
IMO, a belief in another world, an afterlife, makes it so much
easier to devalue this life. Suicide bombers are the ultimate
expression of this, but even the willingness to wage war and send
your own countrymen to their deaths becomes much, much easier when
you believe that they will be going to a better place once they are
dead.
-- Ed Leafe
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