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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 00:25:00 +0200
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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