Religion has failed. Religion was originally used to try to explain the world around us. The earth is the center of the universe, this is in the Bible. Religion tried to give us morality, this failed.
On science.
Science has given us many of the answers about life and the world around us. There are massive amounts of Science which shows that natural selection as part of evolution created all the living things on our planet. Why do Christians scoff at the volumes of scientific fact concerning this point? Intelligent Design does not show this, I.D. is false and is a lie.
As we know, science does not have all the answers to all of life’s questions and when this is so, science says “I don’t know or I don’t know yet.” However, science certainly does not boldly lie and say it knows were we came from and what happens when we die as religions claim to know.
On morality.
Biblical morality includes murder (people who curse their parents, people who worship other gods, etc.), rape (okay to rape women in war, if people want to have sex with a man in your house, give them your daughter instead), incest (okay for fathers to have sex with daughters), genocide (the killing of an entire community since they don’t believe in your god), human sacrifice and to love one another and do not judge others, these are morals taken directly from the Bible. The problem is, there is no guide post in the Bible to direct religious followers as to which morals are right and which morals are wrong.
Society and human interaction and empathy, over time, have changed the moral standards of the masses (the civilized world) over centuries. These moral changes have exceeded the morals of the Bible and of past societies. Biblical morality includes human sacrifice, the rape of women and men, slavery, murder (if you worship another god, you are to be killed, and there are many other reasons to murder people you know.), genocide, slavery (Old and New Testament) and women being second class citizens (in the New Testament).
These ancient Biblical morals are now shunned by the masses. The masses won’t stand for Christians who are directed by the Bible to murder people who worship any god besides the God of the Bible. The masses will not stand for rape of any type, even though there are many examples in the Bible where it is allowed, per God. Please read the Bible to know what circumstances rape is allowed in society.
The civilized world will not stand for slavery, even thought the morality of the Old and New Testament admonishes us that slavery is acceptable and we are to treat slaves properly. The Bible in the New Testament allows women to stay second class citizens; however, the masses are changing their mind on this point and are demanding equal rights for all people, whether Black, Asian, gay, or a woman.
The moral standards of humanity are being set higher than Biblical morality as the centuries pass. Morality comes from social interaction and education. The morality of the masses is passed onto to each other through, books, movies, TV, government laws, discussions, debates, the internet, etc. which help to spread higher societal morality for civilized society.
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