(April 26, 2011 at 10:11 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I think it comes down to "Labels" VI0D...
Humans are very good at trying to put things into little boxes.
The same argument can be had with the word atheist. Look up "Evil Bible" for definitions on Atheism. Very confusing.
Any way ...the argument of "Oh...THEY (I'm not really fusssed as to who THEY are) are not 'TRUE' [insert religion of choice here] is just another way of saying...I am not ready to look at a world that will NOT fit into my own private little paradigm ?
Well yeah, but without putting things into the boxes as best as we are able to our discourse would be extremely difficult, I like labels for the very reason that when they are coherently defined we are able to be much more efficient in discussing issues - There is always the problem that people can end up having a different use of terms that leads to problems, or that the labels can be hard to define, but that is nowhere near as much of a problem as having a discussion without labels where each and every relevant belief needs to be established in a case by case basis.
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