Obviously you DO believe (as I asked you three pages back, but you couldn’t be bothered to respond to) that morality, altruism, caring about others is solely based in religion . Probably YOUR religion and no other. I find that interesting. Apparently fear of hellfire is the only thing that keeps lives other than your own from being expendable in YOUR world view. In mine, I care about keeping others alive and happy, without fear of eternal punishment. I don’t need a Supreme Being to make me feel that way. My humanity and upbringing serve the purpose just fine.
If you can find ANY *objective * evidence that atheists are less caring for human life than the highly religious (or is that only *your * sect?), please provide a cite. Until then, consider yourself a – well, this isn’t the Pit.
Yes, that’s why we go into healthcare in the first place. To laugh at people of faith on their deathbeds. Forget that whole “healing the sick” thing, that’s not nearly as much fun.
I had to look up Cantabric Sea. What we kids used to call the Bay of Biscuits. You guys need to learn a thing or two from the Tasmanians. All the sheep there are consensual.
There’s a problem with the premiss, as atheists are often more zealous, more irrational, more “religious” indeed, than the religious.
To paraphrase Professor J.D. Bernal, it is not always that science has to fight an external enemy, the Church; sometimes the Church is within the scientists themselves.
I wonder how you define “often”. Because there’s certainly some atheists who seem to make it their mission to go around sharing the Bad News, but not remotely most of us. If you actually mean to suggest that atheists tend to be more “zealous” than religious types, I’m going to have to ask you to make a real case for it. (If not, then you weren’t really saying anything, which leads one to ask why you spoke at all.) And as for rationality, disbelief is inherently (and this point is pretty inarguable) more rational than belief, since faith by definition rests upon a lack of evidence. I would assume as a religious person, rather than trying to redefine terms to make yourself “rational”, that you would instead recognize and make peace with the fact that your faith rests, ultimately, on the irrational.