what if evolution was a religion?
A lot of atheists, including my self, find them self whining about all the people that religion has killed. Innocent women, children and men, killed because they did not believe in the right God. There can be no question, religion has killed more people that any war, one might argue that religion is man's greatest enemy. However, thats completely besides my point.
What if evolution was the foundation for the current day religion. We would prohibit anyone with hereditary deceases to breed. We would certainly not allow homosexuality, or fat people to survive. Only the perfect, the athletic, the strong, the clever would prospere in such a society. But would it be possible to have all these qualities in one single person? Or would we deliberately create different races. One hard working and strong. One clever and wise. One creative and beautiful. No matter how frightening the idea of killing the innocent to create the perfect, it would certainly be a baffling world.
Anyway, my point is, that it might not be religions fault that people have killed in its name over the centuries. We are, as a spices programmed to get rid of the weak and admire the strong it is, probably, how we got this far. The only problem is, that for as long as anyone knows, we have had one or more religions to tell us what makes up a successful person and what does not. Now religion is finally slipping away back in to the history books and we realize that killing someone of another religion might not be justified.
But now what, where should we look, to find our new ideals?
May 24th, 2010 - 07:04
In reality, no single religion could guarantee us a place in Heaven. In the end, what matters is how we a treat other people..`’
July 28th, 2010 - 09:38
actually it doesn’t matter what Religion you may have, as long as you treat the other person right.~.’