Atheism doesn't need to teach anything. It's just recognising that there is no god.
I'm not totally following your history paragraph there. I guess denying a historical Jesus touched a nerve. But even if there were a historical Jesus, which I doubt, that's only a very minor aspect of why I'm an atheist.
The Mother Theresa thing was an example of the difference between Narnia vs the real world and heaven vs the real world. The Narnia example would be great if we were wondering if this world were real or not but it's a bad explanation when debating a future world.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Atheism doesn't need to teach anything. It's just recognising that there is no god.
I'm not totally following your history paragraph there. I guess denying a historical Jesus touched a nerve. But even if there were a historical Jesus, which I doubt, that's only a very minor aspect of why I'm an atheist.
The Mother Theresa thing was an example of the difference between Narnia vs the real world and heaven vs the real world. The Narnia example would be great if we were wondering if this world were real or not but it's a bad explanation when debating a future world.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~