Personally, I quite liked the slavery-instant coffee simile.

Not to mention the uses and abuses of Inquisitions.

This was my favourite bit: “...one must know that only one religion can be true, not the many and certainly not none at all as is your unproven supposition Dave."

What one must know is that not all religions can be right, but they can all be wrong.

LOL OUG

The bottom line from your last two posts is this:

You have no evidence whatsoever that any of your so-called "holy" books or recitations are the "word of God" – assuming that "God" exists.

Webby,

Do you have any evidence that any of your "holy books" are in any sense the "word of God" assuming that "God" exists?

I suspect that if God exists she finds the propensity of a small part of her creation to believe some books are "holy" a source of great amusement

Oh Steven, don't you know mate that the God of us Catholics DOES have a sense of humour. G K Chesterton thought so and, well, he is only one of the greatest generalists in the area of philosophy, politics, theology and so forth that one would hiope to have had the good fortune to read.
Atheists need to realise that a lot of personal and group baggage they sprout is actually very much puritan and Deist leftovers fro the British empire whose sun now sets on it each day.

CJ Morgan, bushbasher, Bugsy, AdamD, stevenimeyer,

I wasn’t going to reply to Webby. I could see the pointlessness of attempting to bring to reality someone so in love with an idea, that any suggestions the idea might not be so good, is totally dismissed. The Catholic indoctrinations system is to be commended for its efficacy in keeping its image squeaky clean in the eyes of many of its followers by this method.

Because of your short and sharp replies, there is no need to respond anyway. Having said that, my advice for those who consider that the Inquisitions were based in proper law, should read, the ‘Malleus Maleficium – Hammer For Witches’ by the Dominicans Sprenger & Kramer written with Vatican endorsement. (The handbook for torturing Witches and heretics with over 30 reprints) This book did not cause the Inquisition but its widespread use reinforced the views of Catholicism, mainly in non-protestant Europe, that women in particular were capable of intense evil. (Think patriarchal religions)

The Malleus Maleficium is a frightening look at how unimaginably horrible acts can be carried out in the name of ‘truth’. John Paul II apologised for the Inquisitions in 2004. The Catholic Church has apologised for many wrongs, but always decades or hundreds of years after. Next apology, same-sex orientation.

The Crusades killed a quarter (Four million) of the European population of the time for religious zeal. (This included non-combatants) 200,000 were child soldiers who died of hunger, disease and being slaughtered all sanctioned by the Church. Like today, one of the gods looks down and approves of such measures. What’s wrong with that? Seems fair enough, if your mind has been taken over by dangerous fantasy!

Indoctrination means teaching uncritically and is wrong in all instances whether someone thinks they have the ‘truth’ or not. Thinks they have the ‘truth’ is the main problem on the planet today.

The premise of this thread is proven.

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion."

David