(August 4, 2017 at 10:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah, the humility of the truly religious.
Quote:There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell.
Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
GC thinks he has a special friend in the sky.
I mean, we could go on with, "I am also entirely incapable of being wrong or mistaken about this in any way and those who espouse belief in god but fail to come to the same conclusion as I have about it are similarly doomed and are living as futile an existence as any non-believer. No matter what evidence there is to the contrary, it is merely a trick of the devil attempting to undermine god and not down to any flaws in the scripture whatever, and god is too supremely lofty to be questioned about why he could not simply eliminate this dichotomy and any perceived flaws in the bible, leaving me uniquely privileged with absolute certainty that my particular view is the only possible correct interpretation."
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.
