RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 6, 2018 at 3:42 pm
(May 6, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(May 6, 2018 at 2:01 pm)Quick Wrote: I'm not religious.
That was aimed at them.... not you.
Quote:If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based.
--Brig. Gen Albert Pike, C.S.A.
It is hardly a new thought.
Well, I don't really expect to have many original thoughts. >.<
But your individuality and your present need will be swept away by change,
and what you now ardently desire will one day become the object of abhorrence.
~ Schiller - 'Psychological Types'
