(February 22, 2016 at 8:58 am)robvalue Wrote: I guess some of them can't see it because they see "his actions" as a prescription for morality in the first place. So he could do anything and they'd say it was righteous and just and so on.
And of course, they then can't see why that is a terrible system.
I try to remember back to when I was a Christian. I guess the horror never really dawned on me. When we're surrounded by people who believe something, it becomes a part of our homeostasis. We can't go against that without a major cognitive dissonance, so we never ask the pertinent questions. the church programs our minds to guard against such questions. They are locked away in a room marked DANGER.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
