10-17-2012, 03:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2012, 03:38 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Religion doesn't provide context, it provides an excuse to let people's misery and suffering perpetuate itself - it is a crutch, and an excuse to not have to think for ones self. Instead of realizing the true cause of their ills, they run to a church or religious text - its like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound, because the problem is still going to be there the next day. Nor does it necessarily teach compassion - quite the opposite from what I can see as I explained in my prior post. If someone is starving to death, are they going to sit there and pray to some fictional god that someone will feed them soon? Maybe you would. Fuck that, I'm getting off my ass and I'm going to find something to eat, by ANY means necessary, except sitting there praying to some invisible sky wizard and hoping things get better. LMAO. Religious doctrine doesn't allow people to have the self-determination that they need AND are certainly capable of having - and we were doing just fine looooooooooooong before the Pope could take his first shit.
And quit saying we are naturally greedy, murderous beings - its a complete load of crap with no truth or basis to it, that is easily disproved historically and anthropologically. Your reasoning and outlook on our species is absolutely ridiculous if not downright repulsive, and reduces us to a bunch of ignorant savages incapable of rational thought, that need mythology and fiction to keep ourselves civilized, guided, and alive - which is total bolognese. The truth is, religion does the opposite of these things, and for any good it has done, there is a lot more bad. It puts people in Ivory towers, and blinds them from understanding how the world really works. I don't need a crutch to help me get through the day - reason, rationality, logic, and ethics is enough.
And quit saying we are naturally greedy, murderous beings - its a complete load of crap with no truth or basis to it, that is easily disproved historically and anthropologically. Your reasoning and outlook on our species is absolutely ridiculous if not downright repulsive, and reduces us to a bunch of ignorant savages incapable of rational thought, that need mythology and fiction to keep ourselves civilized, guided, and alive - which is total bolognese. The truth is, religion does the opposite of these things, and for any good it has done, there is a lot more bad. It puts people in Ivory towers, and blinds them from understanding how the world really works. I don't need a crutch to help me get through the day - reason, rationality, logic, and ethics is enough.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)