Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas? Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 00:25:00 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <66638013$0$2363138$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:22:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b1f868eb8d90214271408d9245948ba9"; logging-data="2361499"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xcpRDd7v5K3Z/SWgXEgwJ" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9AbCine93hIcw4UfIfVceSbPKmE= In-Reply-To: <66638013$0$2363138$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2415 On 6/7/24 23:48, bitrex wrote: > On 6/7/2024 5:20 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > >> Oh! That's nonsense. Religion is a human invention, much like >> father Christmas and the tooth fairy. The difference is that >> many people never get over it. >> >> Religion has no right to claim to be the source of morality! >> Morality stems from a desire to cooperate to our mutual benefit. >> Religion never even comes into it. >> >> I see no clear tendency of religious people to be nicer. I've >> seen quite a few who were real bastards. >> >> Jeroen Belleman > > I've been acquainted with some atheists whose main objection to the > concept of a God seemed to be that it would necessarily imply there was > an entity smarter and/or more powerful than them out there somewhere. > > Certainly might rub a number of engineers the wrong way: [...] Again, that has nothig to do with religion. Some people do need to believe they are better than others. Maybe in some way, some of them are! We all have our qualities and our blind spots. Jeroen Belleman