A message to hatred for Sonu Nigam in the name of religion - Page 12

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

On another side note - I'm a deist atheist. I used to consider myself a nontheist until I better understood deism.

Originally posted by: MadOwhat

I agree Late Christopher Hitchens is by far the most bold & balanced atheist I have heard.I also find Richard Dawkins early commentaries quite impartial. Haven't had much exposure to Sam Harris, from the little I know his concept on secularism seems quite practically (The concept of god & religion itself is non-secular), besides he not pure atheist (from definition pov) in the sense that he endorse the Advaita Vedanta concept.

As for most Atheist being selective in their critique, you need to understand that though they don' t fear for God and after life...they do fear for their life😊.

The same bunch of atheist wouldn't be criticizing Christianity in the pre- world war era. If you want the proof of pudding, search Ayn Rand on you tube.The author was a high profile atheist in the early 20th century, there is black and white AV on YT where she speak against Christianity in a forum. You will be surprised with the reaction from the audience.

After the second world war, the state and religion were separated in the western countries hence Christianity went through reforms and opened up for critique.Where as, Islam which was passive after the power shift to Europe became more conservative as the petro-dollars started flowing after mid 20th century and Wahabism/Salafism brand got promoted.

Originally posted by: roni_berna

Sonu spoke against the loudspeaker and is declared an anti-Muslim? Or did I hear wrong 🤓

Originally posted by: ---Betty---

^^^

Actually criticism of Christanity has existed since it's early years and there were several cases not just one or two here and there, so it's not true that it only started post World War.

There was Voltaire of course and several other 18th century (the Age of Enlightenment) European philosophers who criticized Christanity

Fredrick Nietzsche's book "The AntiChrist" was a scathing review of the religion and it's church

American revolutionary Thomas Paine attacked the corruption of religious authorities

During French Revolution churches and priests were attacked(literally), churches were closed down, destroyed, priests deported...

But long before any of this enlightenment and scientific revolution happened, 2nd century Greek philosopher Celsus wrote "The True World"... It's the earliest known comprehensive attack on Christanity, there were other such works too around that period...

Later any religious criticism was suppressed under Roman Empire for a millennium, until Protestant reformation in the 15,16th century led to fundamental split in Christanity, then it started again...

Didn't Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" go against Bible teachings 😊

Finally Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi (the man was tireless in his support for islamists 😊 ) have criticized the behaviour of Christians (not Christanity itself)