RE: The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work
April 9, 2016 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2016 at 10:28 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
Atheist because I can think, and I questioned the faith in which I was brought up.
Not against homosexuality because I can think, and I realized that it harms no one except those who accept the prejudices of a Bronze-Age sheepherder tribe's priests.
Thinkers tend to question the programming they're fed as children. Most people are more comfortable accepting the prejudices they're fed as children, be it racism, religion, whatever. As the song from South Pacific says, "You've got to be taught, from year to year. It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you've got to be carefully taught. ... You've got to be taught before it's too late, before you are six or seven or eight, to hate all the people your relatives hate. You've got to be carefully taught."
Why do you think it is that people raised in Saudi Arabia overwhelmingly come to the conclusion that Allah is the only God, and Muhammad is His Prophet? Or that people raised in India are overwhelmingly Hindu? And so on it goes. Why do you think it is that the "Great Religious Truths™" are so regionally/culturally predictable?
I'm not just being asinine; that's a serious and direct question to which I'd appreciate it if you'd give some thought and reflection, and come up with more than a trite answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnY-Ft7F9eo
Not against homosexuality because I can think, and I realized that it harms no one except those who accept the prejudices of a Bronze-Age sheepherder tribe's priests.
Thinkers tend to question the programming they're fed as children. Most people are more comfortable accepting the prejudices they're fed as children, be it racism, religion, whatever. As the song from South Pacific says, "You've got to be taught, from year to year. It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you've got to be carefully taught. ... You've got to be taught before it's too late, before you are six or seven or eight, to hate all the people your relatives hate. You've got to be carefully taught."
Why do you think it is that people raised in Saudi Arabia overwhelmingly come to the conclusion that Allah is the only God, and Muhammad is His Prophet? Or that people raised in India are overwhelmingly Hindu? And so on it goes. Why do you think it is that the "Great Religious Truths™" are so regionally/culturally predictable?
I'm not just being asinine; that's a serious and direct question to which I'd appreciate it if you'd give some thought and reflection, and come up with more than a trite answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnY-Ft7F9eo
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
