If you think an ideology or religion is immoral and evil, should you actively oppose it?
Christians and Muslims seem to think so as evidenced by Inquisitions and Jihads.
I am a Gnostic Christian and we have always seen it as part of our belief system to oppose immoral and evil belief systems. We are not pacifists but historically have done our ideological fighting with good arguments instead of violence.
We have also called on all good people to actively oppose religions and ideologies that they feel are immoral and not deserving of their respect. That is a take-off on the adage that for evil to grow, all good people need do is nothing. Gnostic Christians believe in spreading good ideologies.
Both Christianity and Islam, slave holding ideologies, have basically developed into intolerant, homophobic and misogynous religions. Both religions have grown themselves by the sword instead of good deeds and good moral arguments and continue with their immoral ways in spite of secular law showing them a better and more moral ways. Some of Christianity has adopted these better ways of late but Islam is lagging and fighting against ideological reform.
Jesus said we would know his people by their works and deeds. That means Jesus would not recognize Christians and Muslims as his people, and neither do I. Jesus would call Christianity and Islam abominations.
Gnostic Christians did call them out for their evils in the past, and I am proudly continuing that tradition and honest irrefutable evaluation based on morality.
In whatever belief system you follow, be it humanist, secular, atheistic or religious, does your ideology require you to fight other ideologies or religions you find immoral or harmful to society?
Please specify what ideology you follow in your reply.
Regards
DL
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I'd add: growing by deeds don't mean much after you spent generations using the sword to eliminate competition.
Born again secular humanist amateur comedian here!
You forgot "over the head poo flinger"!
Said many, many times here. Atheist is not a belief system. Atheist is simply a person that is not theist. Sort of the opposite of a belief system.
What a crock. You think that YOUR religion is more moral than the next....BULLSHIT! All religion is immoral because it requires a person to believe in something that isn't proven and isn't real. Then it requires them to conduct their life based on that belief. So they conduct their life on a belief whoses tenets are dictated by another person. That is IMMORAL. Not only that they brainwash children. THAT IS IMMORAL.
So don't hand me any bullshit that your religion is moral.