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Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing (view source)
Revision as of 12:34, May 10, 2007
, 12:34, May 10, 2007Still on Christianity
::Please enlighten me with some example of this 'good' that christianity, or protentism, has done because I have found none that is not outweighed enormously by the amount of death and suffering it has caused over the years.
::Please enlighten me with some example of this 'good' that christianity, or protentism, has done because I have found none that is not outweighed enormously by the amount of death and suffering it has caused over the years.
:: Northern Ireland is a political dispute, however without the definition of one side as catholics, and the others as protestants, the trouble would have ended long ago. Instead a rival group mentality is fostered by sending children to denominational religious schools, by going to church and by marrying into the same group. If it wasn't for this, there would be no way of telling who was on what side, or any easy ways with which to inspire hatred. [[User:Bolly Ottihw|Bolly Ottihw]] 22:10, 10 May 2007
:: Northern Ireland is a political dispute, however without the definition of one side as catholics, and the others as protestants, the trouble would have ended long ago. Instead a rival group mentality is fostered by sending children to denominational religious schools, by going to church and by marrying into the same group. If it wasn't for this, there would be no way of telling who was on what side, or any easy ways with which to inspire hatred. [[User:Bolly Ottihw|Bolly Ottihw]] 22:10, 10 May 2007
::: I deny it for the reasons that I gave; that there is a lack of evidence. Yes, it is well "documented", but without any actual list of "stolen" aborigines (beyond a handful). Most that were supposedly "stolen" were actually voluntarily given up by their parents who couldn't look after them, and reasons such as that.
::: Your argument about "defending the indefensible" presumes that it is indefensible, which it isn't. And Christianity is not "a tool to discourage individual thought"; if anything it has encouraged it.
::: I've already pointed you to a page which mentions some of the good that Christianity has done. Did you read it?
::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 08:34, 10 May 2007 (EDT)