Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:35:56 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas? Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:35:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Trace: sv3-eA9zzemjz3xqVkLcQ/+iSZyZBc/cN+V+8fdvSMYndp04OLohs4fedCWZePWUXKetALL66sQabz7cl27!Qo48NzlCTHRmJmAyBWUSEfStjbib7MWCZyqPwEsz9wuOMQjK2X6xfubCH63vmnGMVKEGbEpz5kJb!JDyRzA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2243 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:53:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote: >On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote: >[...] >> >> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are >> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for >> Hamas, killing is always win-win. >> > >Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor hell. >Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing. >There is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it. > >Jeroen Belleman Until you understand the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness, you can't know. Religion is human's reason to have morality. Morality leads to enlightment and a kind, just, productive society. Where else would morality and justice come from? One interpretation of religion is our collective feelings about proper behavior to others. Obviously, there are different religions with, possibly, genetic components. In my personal experience, religious people are nicer than atheists. Better cooks too.