Spotted the Atheist
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Thousands of years of garbage is not made good and useful simply by dint of being old.
I don't understand why this needs to be explained to people. The fucking mountains are tens of millions of years older then your oldest church dogmas, and for some reason none of you window lickers need to be told not to worship THOSE.
What foul hubris is it that drives your ilk to declare something to be inherently valuable just because some people with the most distant and tenuous connection to you came up with it a few thousand years ago? Do you know how long doctors spent alternating between working on corpses and delivering newborns, often without washing their hands? Centuries. Goddamned centuries. And we threw that out and made them wear gloves, because it turned out it was thousand-year-old garbage just the same.
Age is not an indicator of value. Age is an indicator of age.
Human beings appear to need some sort of explanatory principle for existence and the suffering that goes along with it. What has rationalism offered but emptiness and philosophies like existentialism or the emotional and ethical desert of materialism? You atheists keep looking backwards, usually citing the easiest target, the atrocities of the Catholic Church.
But the Church also made possible a rich and rewarding vein of art. So did Islam in its heyday. Buddhism, ditto. The arrogance of calling the cultural products of the major religions "garbage" says a lot about the atheist outlook.
Rationalism has given us heroes like Semmelweis and the miraculous edifice of technology that has improved earthly existence, but it has also failed to grapple with the amoral stupidity and hubris that led us to the glories of cobalt bombs and Sarin. The evil that produces religious barbarisms also corrupts the rationalist, but rational evil is the product of an absence of morality rather than corrupted morality turned against itself as with religious hypocrisy.
Your comment is typical of atheists, who are as dogmatic as any Imam.