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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan Originally Posted by
You say you challenged the merits of the content, where exactly? |
Well, I don't know who said this, but I say that the merits of the contents have one huge basic flaw, and another big one.
1. Steve should have checked up the facts before repeating the Jesus-based-in-Horus theory as a parrot. I don't know where he got this one, though I have a strong guess. Just changing "Horus" for "Mithra", the mistake would disappear. But what bothers me of this mistake is that Steve didn't check his facts before writing the article.
2. Religious people are the most fanatic, blablah. Any ideal that gets organized will produce the same fanatism, just as harmful and in new forms. I'll grant Steve that religion has done this during much more time, because before science was developed, religion explained everything, and was therefore an extremely strong force. But the fascist-communist regimes of the 20th century managed to prove, just in one century, that humans kill and torture and hurt with or without religion, just as well and just as fanatically.
In my opinion, fanatism and not religion, is the problem. However, organized religion can be dangerous for free states. Their political power in the USA is way too much. I think that religion is obsolete and disempowering, but I guess every person has a very different experience about it, and in any case, I've known non-fanatic religious people and fanatic atheists, (fanatic religious people and non-fanatic atheists too, of couse), so as long the person is not fanatic I don't care about their beliefs. That said, I think Steve's opinion on spirituality and beliefs is highly empowering and I totally endorse it.