Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "'Why I had to leave my ultra-Orthodox family' - BBC News" video.

  1. Religions are all different interpretations of the knowlegde of God, which was discovered by mankind.
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  2.  @paulgibbons2320  "Religion attacks that" Nonsense, Catholicism has always embraced logic when it comes to the natural world, but uses 'faith' when dealing with the metaphsyical. You can be both a scientist and a Christian, there is no contradiction there. You might say "it's stupid to believe in fictions", but almost everyone believes in fictions, for example: nation states are fictions, currency is a fiction, etc......Fictions are just something mutually agreed upon, but which may not exist in reality, or exist but cannot be measured and observed by empiricism. It's almost impossible to raise a child free of some kind of fiction or propaganda, even atheists will tell their children "religion is stupid" or "there is no god", without letting the child weigh up the evidence for themselves.
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  3. No, leftists.
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  4. Religion created human civilisation you idiot.
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  5.  @valmeeki21  I agree, Christianity is the best interpretation of course.
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  6. Not all religions are the same.
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  7. Your children are currently being brainwashed by leftists in schools, but i guess they get a free pass, don't they Paul. Forcing religion is bad, but forcing politics isn't?
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  8.  @realpolitics527  Try raising a child without instilling into them Christian ethics, you can't. You yourself are culturally and ethically Christian, you just don't recoginse it for what it is. If you ever say to a child: "that's not right!" or "it's right to share", you yourself are imposing religious ethics onto children. These moral oughts are fictions, but which are mutually agreed upon. So answer me this: Why should a child 'be good', or 'share', or 'respect others'? This is you imposing a restricted ethical standard onto children, but why not raise children like they did in Sparta where they were couraged to fight and even taught to steal with cunning? You're a Christian and you don't even know it!
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  9.  @paulgibbons2320  I never said it was a 'work of fiction', i merely stated that it cannot be proved empirically, but there are many things which cannot proven empirically which are either true (like i cannot prove that you love your wife), or not true, but almost universially believed by everyone (you cannot prove that national borders are anything more than arbitrary lines on a map). And there's nothing wrong with tribalism, people need a group identity. It's unnatural to be an isolated individual with no ties to other people or a common belief system, which is why even atheists are almost never isolated individuals and without any belief system, scratch the surface and you find a cultural and ethical Christian.
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  10.  @paulgibbons2320  "Ethics and empathy existed along time before Christianity." I agree, but the difference is that Christianity applies an obligation to be empathetic; it's a moral duty. In Christianity you don't get to side-step your own conscience by making excuses (which are easy to make). One of the two 'great commandments' is to "love your neighbour as yourself". You can choose not to of course, but it will come with eternal consequences. Remember what it says in Matthew 25:40-43: "And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’ Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me." Inaction is no excuse, which is why Dante placed the indifferent in the vestibule of hell. Witch trials were sporadic and usually occured during a time of crisis (The witch trials in England occured during and shortly after the English civil war). The crusades were justfied. Clerical child abuse cannot be justified, but many internal reports point to homosexual priests as being the main culprits, but that was never reported by the mainstream media. The link between homsexuality and peadophilia won't go down very well with Liberals. "How come most Atheists I know do a better job of applying Christian ethics than Christians do?" One of the atributes of God is goodness, God is goodness itself, therefore anyone who is good possesses God. So an atheist, who is a good ethical Christian, can be boldly called a cultural and ethical Christian. Early Christians use to refer to Plato as a 'Christian before Christ', for his teachings.
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  11.  @britbong1457  The UK is a cult, nations states are fictions.
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  12.  Keyrings Locks  That's like saying: "Let's remove the foundations, because we've finished building the house." Remove Christianity are it's back to savagery.
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  13.  @wtfjesus8251  U mean like Stalin (atheist) who killed millions? Nice morality there mate. See, i can cherry-pick too.
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  14. Says the man with a Trump pic.
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  15.  @thewatcheronthewall85  Donald Trump is a Christian though, lol.
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  16. Nope, far from it.
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  17.  GoldenState  People need control, human nature is savage. Why do you think we have governments?
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