ArchivedPA officials guilty of blatant violation of First AmendmentOk. Im obsessed with people. I've met a few religious fundamentalists (and fenatics) but you can't really learn much from a few encounters face to face. Written words say much more than spoken words so forums are rather effective for this purpouse. It's a sort of hobby/personal study. I just think its unfortunate that people feel that in order to have love, order and a decent society they need religion. Do you have that little trust in human nature? I never suggested that the strong should survive and the weak perish, for that has nothing to do with God or religioun its up to human nature to decide that and human nature without the support of God is surprisingly reliable. Im sencing a comparison here. In what way am i like that? All im saying is that telling people what they should and shouldn't believe, simply telling them, is pointless. You'll just annoy a lot of people. Discussing with people what they should and shouldn't believe (and i dont mean quoting endless pages of the bible because most people don't take the Bible for granted) is different. That isn't going to annoy people. However stating, for example that someone is 'immature and close-minded' because they do not see things your way, without anything to back that statement up isn't going to achieve anything. If anything it will put people off seeing things your way. Ok similes are obviously the latest fashion trend. When you look at the world through an infra red camera say, what you are seeing is infra-red translated into visible light, you are not actually seeing purely in infra red. So you believe that a snake, who sees in infra-red, will be looking at the world in exactly this way. However they do not translate into colours as we understand them. You are looking at infra-red vision in visible light terms. Similarly you are looking at how someone like me sees the world in terms of how you see the world. It is a translation but it isn't actually true all the same. All im trying to do is make you apprecite that people without your beliefs do not see things exactly like you think they do. That is to say they don't see them in your terms. Im not trying to turn you all into atheists or anything (because I know that would be about as pointless and frustrating as you trying to convert me into a christian). If i share my 'unbeliefs' in God you will then (im hoping) retort in a manor that gives me a better understanding of why you don't see things as i do and why you see things as you do. Making statements such as 'because we are open minded enough to accept God!' doesn't help. Why is that open-mindedness? Im not outright saying that it isn't open mindedness im simply asking for an explanation so that i can understand it. this is what i mean by this idea of dependency. Human nature supports itself and it succeeds. Religion is a product of human nature, in order for it to support itself. Yet I find it tragic that this pillar is something that isn't truely necessary, but is nevertheless there. Someone could live their life in a wheelchair thinking that they couldn't walk. What they don't realise is that theres nothing wrong with their own legs, they just haven't learned to use them yet. |
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