For me personally, it takes very few demonstrations to consider a belief bogus... The few insane qu'ran verses I know like 4:89 and the simple concept of miracles, heaven and hell, are enough for me to dismiss the religion as a whole, simply from it's own falsehood.
The social sciences field knows as ''History'' or ''Historical studies'' does not represent ''what happened'' but rather explores the points of view of different authors in their attempts to record history itself.
We will never know exactly what happened because we can't go back in time...
In my opinion, Islam is an untrue religion because it relies on a God that has preferences towards how people live yet he created us deviant and will send some of us to burn in eternal fire for having been created that way and having been unable to believe in an idea which seems unlogical to...
It was humans as a whole. The evil side of some humans...When the idea of democracy was first sold to the eople of Ancient Greece, it was for a ''good'' purpose but then, some men, evil men, thirty for power, saw democracy as a tool to achieve that power. The thirst for power of some men is what...
When I ask a religious person ''Where did God come from?'', they is one answer they always give me: ''He was always there.''. Ok well, from a purely logical standpoint, what gives you the right to say he was always there but dismiss my idea that the universe was always there?
I think nature has no moral responsibility so to pose such a question is ridiculous. I wouldn't say Nature is ''nice'' or ''gentle'' but to qualify it on morality is frivolous.
I never said I believe god created everything, I think ''Nature'' is what's responsible but I don't see why we have to call it ''god'', since it doesn't care about us or have a say in our lives or listens to prayer.
I think Nature has a consciousness in an involuntary way. I don't believe...
I believe the soul is only a self created concept through developped intelligence, I think that if you don't have a concept of your own soul, you don't have one e.g babies? I believe that when we die, the brain stops working and therefore we have no soul form that point on.
Personally, I just think that in respects to monotheistic religions, we shouldn't use God to describe Nature, I know what you mean but I think the simple use of the term God when it isn't needed can open doors for other religions that think of God in a totally different way.
Furthermore I...
I think decency is a matter of intelligence, as in if you're a genius but you're not intelligent enough to be decent well then you're simply not intelligent...but I don't necessarily think IQ test's calculate decency.
There is still a lot of wars and fighting going on, but I think, proportionally to the world's population, that it is not as it was some thousand years ago, where it was CONSTANT, in every part of the world. As for animals, I agree that animals do not fiht only for food...but remember one...