(August 3, 2017 at 6:09 am)ignoramus Wrote: I think evolution has given a mother a fierce unconditional love for her babies.
Many mothers in nature will fight to the death to protect them.
You didn't know my mother. Evolution ain't foolproof. And she wasn't even a religious zealot. Everyone else in the family was, though.
To me, unconditional love is what comes after the initial feeling of love, not a general compassion for living things like the Jedi are supposed to have. Once that genuine love starts, then if you withhold it or it wanes because of reasons other than the person you love reveals themselves not to actually be that person you thought, that's conditional. So theoretically it should be pretty easy for, say, a parent whose mind is not addled to practice unconditional love for their children, but much harder for them to do so for a spouse. Doesn't really work in practice, though.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
