5
Henkinen kasvu
All my life I've been surrounded by people who believe in God, or say they do. They insist that one must believe in order to be moral, but they themselves are so immoral. They insist that religion is a moral guide, when many of the things that religions advocate are unjust and cruel, or just plain false.
I was seven years old when I realized that I did not believe in God, or that at the very least, something was not right about the whole thing. It wasn't that the stories in the Bible contradicted science. I was perfectly willing to believe in a talking snake. Some of the things God said and did made no sense, and some of the things God did were just plain mean. Either God wasn't all powerful, or God was not good. Or, God wasn't there. I ultimately decided the latter was true. It was morality that made me atheist.
My purpose is not to debate the existence of God. You either believe or you don't. This book is about values.
There are those, such as the former Attorney General of the United States, William Barr, who assert that not only is morality impossible without God, but that belief is required to be a citizen of a democracy! Their project is to use the law to force their religion upon the growing number of those of us who want no part it.
There are impossible things, but atheist morality is not one of them. Every moral decision ever made, by any person in all of time, was made in the absence of God.
This is my testimony.
© 2021 Author's Republic (Äänikirja): 9781662188350
Julkaisupäivä
Äänikirja: 26. huhtikuuta 2021
Astu tarinoiden maailmaan
Yli miljoona tarinaa
Suosituksia juuri sinulle
Uusia Storytel Originals + eksklusiivisia sisältöjä kuukausittain
Turvallinen Kids Mode
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Sinulle joka kuuntelet säännöllisesti.
1 käyttäjätili
50 tuntia/kuukausi
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Sinulle joka kuuntelet ja luet usein.
1 käyttäjätili
100 tuntia/kuukausi
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Sinulle joka haluat rajattomasti tarinoita.
1 käyttäjätili
Kuuntele ja lue rajattomasti
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Kun haluat jakaa tarinoita perheen kanssa.
2-6 tiliä
100 tuntia/kk jokaiselle käyttäjälle
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
2 käyttäjätiliä
26.99 € /kuukausiSinulle joka kuuntelet vähemmän.
1 käyttäjätili
20 tuntia/kuukausi
Säästä käyttämättömät tunnit, max 20h
Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Suomi
Suomi