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On 6/7/2024 5:01 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 16:51:24 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> "john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:f7r66j9igh2jc9ndb8pj5vsc5310fbopvj@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:53:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> 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.
>>
>> https://russell-j.com/0464NP.HTM
> 
> Gosh, what a jerk.
> 

Religion and atheism are probably somewhat tangential issues to the 
state of "being a jerk", which tends to develop based on experiences 
that begin in very early childhood, well before a person is able to 
grasp what either term means very well.

That is to say I'm skeptical religion or atheism alone has the power to 
put the jerk in anyone who wasn't more-or-less already there, and I'm 
skeptical religion or atheism alone has the power to un-jerk anyone who 
showed up that way, already.