Originally Posted by
tmac
On the issue of morality...
Can you think, or name a moral action or statement a believer can do that a non-believer cannot?
I dare say you cannot.
Now name a wicked action that only a believer would undertake?
Suicide bombing, circumcision, etc.
Circumcision is a fairly common practice even outside religion, but. It's sometimes considered to be more hygienic, for one thing. Female circumcision is generally a bad thing, though. It's, however, not limited to the religious. It can be due to a really bad turn of spousal abuse, among other things, and it's generally about power, religion is just one excuse.
Suicide bombings are less usual than circumcisions, outside of religion, but have been known to happen. Plenty of mentally ill people to go around, don't need religion to blow yourself up, really.
Religion is just a popular excuse to commit atrocities, other known reasons include ethnicity, hay-those-guys-have-more-stuff-than-us, money, mental illness, nationalism, jealousy, fighting terrorism, and so on, and so forth.
People don't need religion to be bad. And anything someone religious can do, can be done by someone who isn't. And you don't need to believe to use religion as an excuse, either.
Religion can also be a reason to not hurt people. Turn the other cheek and all of that. There's plenty of people who behave better, because they have religion.
One has to wonder what any of that has to do with your original argument, though. Or indeed why you think that's an answer to my post.
I find it insulting that many people who believe in God to question another person's morality or claim they cannot be moral without a supernatural.
How very, very interesting. Is that why you made a thread attacking religion?
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