RE: What makes a religion?
June 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 4:16 pm by IATIA.)
(June 17, 2016 at 4:09 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Whatever is number 1 and all close to it, in what you value/love, and how you go on about living towards it, is your religion.
Even if you hardly value what you value most, what you value most by definition is what you worship. We never value God as he ought to be valued, all we can do is make him number 1 such that everything pales in how much we value it.
Otherwise, we cannot truly value it at the level due to it.
Here is what I read;
(paraphrase MK)
Everybody worships something. If that something is not the one true god, then one is worshiping a false god.
Commandment #1 - - Thou shalt not have strange gods before thee.
Which means that no matter how good I am, I must go to hell.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
