(November 16, 2017 at 11:31 am)Khemikal Wrote: Jesus seemed to think otherwise. Fuck that guy though, right, you're here to tell us what's what. We don't need his input. The catholics insist that we might be punished even if we are without -any- personal sin. Not one, not one hundred. That we're fundamentally seperated from god by the original sin of our first parents. What do you think about that?
The vile claim that you are broken at birth is an insane claim to me. Or that one should suffer the same pain because of their ancestors is insane to me.
"Sin" is a mythological word. If one wants to say that humans make mistakes, or that humans can be cruel, nobody can or should dispute that. But to sell a kid the idea that they are broken BEFORE they do anything wrong is absurd and dangerous.
Humans are flawed yes. Humans can be cruel yes. But to sell a child that they are broken at birth, is cutting their legs out from under them before they can think for themselves.
OUR flaws as a species are not a result super heros or super villains. We should not be teaching children that they are unworthy by proxy of old mythology or the acts of their ancestors they were not responsible for because they were not alive.
And the worst part is when the theist claims this "all powerful" deity set up the game himself. Takata airbag maker KNEW it's product was bad, and they got sued. I'd say if you are "all powerful" you'd have no excuse for making defective product.
I'd say the reason humans do good or bad, isn't magical either way. I'd say we'd all do better if we want to reduce the bad, to understand nature in real terms and not chalk it up to old mythology.
