RE: So is crucifiction a bad or a good thing?
December 16, 2015 at 5:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2015 at 5:10 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(December 15, 2015 at 10:07 am)Rhythm Wrote: What debt? I am neither saved nor one of your gods people. I've made no agreements, I've borrowed nothing, I will not receive any favors. What could I possibly owe, is it remotely coherent to talk of debt in this manner?Always remember what religion is about. It's about complete belief and obedience without exception. You rightly don't believe in an invisible celestial deity because such an entity doesn't exist. But you do believe in a "god" of sorts. That "god" is your national identity and leaders. You agree to abide by their rules in exchange for the social and financial benefits you get by being a good follower. You will die for them without a second thought under the right conditions. That's powerful faith in action.
Even though you never set foot inside a church to hear a traditional religious fairy tale you swim in a sea of constant propaganda that your national "god" and leaders spew 24/7/365. You willingly follow their commandments and get highly pissed when other people don't, sometimes to the point of wanting to kill them for their disobedience.
The purpose of religion is to get people to attribute that behavior to devotion to a magical "God" creature so that the political system can use it without being directly tied to it. So when the imaginary "God" character says to kill everyone in the town over the hill and burn it to the ground such an act becomes easy to do because the creator of the universe said to do it. People can't wait to go to war to kill the scum over the hill because they are only doing what their "God" wants them to do. A rational person would say "are you nuts? Those scum have never done anything against me. So why should I go kill them when I personally don't believe in killing anyone?" But people are not very rational and they will do very horrible things to please their favorite "god". And we all have favorite "gods".
Wannabe "god" Cruz wants to bomb people until the sand glows. http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/ted-cr...sand-glows. Of course he himself will never, ever, do that himself but his worshippers will give their very lives to make it happen and to please him. That's the power of religion.
