How exactly does the existence of a single person (Bacon) negate any of the arguments about atrocities in the Middle Ages?
If you are nit picking between Islam and Christianity, I am afraid you missed the point.
If you are nit picking between Islam and Christianity, I am afraid you missed the point.
Bacon was silly on my part.
Another point I found in the opening paragraph places the blame of many conflicts in the world on Christian beliefs. If you see someone killing another in the name of Christ then they taking teaching from a confused source.
From my perspective the quality of life for us is ever increasing. The cause behind these improvements can be found within the influence religious doctrines have held on the minds of each successive generation. If our human nature is naturally so good how do we explain all the suffering we subject each other to everyday?
I said several times in the article that I agree with all the moral teachings of all religions - which, by the way, are almost identical in all religions.
My main point is that we no longer need the "stories" in each religion because the vast majority of the population is literate now. The stories are what cause religions to attack each other. "My God is better than yours", "My prophet is right, yours is wrong". Those stories are no longer relevant or necessary. Instead, they cause strife and bloodshed.
Nowhere in the article do I single out Christianity as the only problem. All religions have this problem equally - because they are based on two thousand year old stories.