RE: Religious excuses for negligence removed!
March 12, 2011 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2011 at 12:17 pm by Captain Scarlet.)
(March 12, 2011 at 10:03 am)tackattack Wrote: I would say action trumps belief.. regardless of it's positive or negative social impact. When religious beliefs are used to affect government or social structure from a top down method, I feel it's incorrect. Changing society's concensus which then affects government is one think but government should have no control over belief, only when that belief moves to action. I hate politics.. I must be very tired..I would agree in a very real and practical sense. But if you really believe, then this is not necessarily true. For example we are told Jesus treated people (who possibly had a mental or even physical condition, which affected behaviour) for demonic posession. Nowadays that would be regarded as crackpot...but if you really believe why would that be the case?
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
