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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i can understand that fact being unsettling, nevertheless, no one can prove Christianity has done more harm that good.
i've searched for proof, intensely, i can't find it.
i'm not defending Christianity. not that that won't stop my legion of fans from lashing out.
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You wont find "proof" for what is inherently an argument about relative concepts.
But you could start with the Crusades, or sectarian conflict in Ireland, or The catholic Church conniving with the Nazi's and their Final Solution, or The British Empire, or The Spanish conquests in South America. Catholic sex education in the Third World and the Aids epidemic. The collusion of the Church and peodophile priests. Forced abortion of unmarried mothers. Its a long long list.
But then I suppose we would need to look at what you mean by "good". What are you balancing the atrocious wars and murders against ? Surely you don't have some ridiculous notion that Christianity brought us some moral code to live by ?
Morality does not come from the Bible. The Old testament is full of hate and murder. Bullshit like Lott appeasing the homosexuals of Sodom with his Virgin daughters. The book of Leviticus says that we should stone to death homosexuals. In fact stoning to death comes up rather frequently.
Then you have the new testament, its a bit lighter on the stonings and smotings and the doing to death of anyone who displeases the Lord, but it is still a bag of hypocritical shite where Christians pick and choose the bits that fit their particular "morals".
Dawkins explains it a lot better than I could.