(June 23, 2011 at 11:42 am)Cinjin Wrote:(June 20, 2011 at 11:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The world is REAL. Your bullshit religion is not. As long as you harm no one but yourself I would not care but you people can never keep your superstitions to yourselves.
Min is RIGHT ON about this. It's very rare that I get harassed about my deistic view of God and the reason: because I (and every other deist I've ever met) don't go around trying to get everyone else to put their name down on the "Deist Sign Up Sheet" and put into our schools, government and every other fuckin facet of our lives.
Belief structures, faith, religion - whatever you subscribe to - should be left at home. And if religious people could keep their views personal and private like they should ... we could all get along splendidly!
But that's not even close to reality is it. Kill anyone in the name of your god today?!?
You refer to what we should do. But as creatures of reaction in Plato's cave since we are as we are, everything is as it is. Nothing changes because of what we are: the human condition. If we had wings, it would solve the problem of transportation. But we don't so we have this problem. The essence of religion is not about belief but revealing what we ARE. "Know thyself." We no longer even know what it means.
"Do You wish to know God? Learn first to know yourself"
-ABBA EVAGRIUS, FOURTH CENTURY
Obvious enough. The trouble is that we do not do it or even know how anymore. So everything continues as it is regardless of the finest platitudes and denials.
