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March 23, 2019 at 11:39 pm (This post was last modified: March 23, 2019 at 11:43 pm by tackattack.)
(March 22, 2019 at 3:36 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:
(March 22, 2019 at 11:11 am)tackattack Wrote: I will agree that it is a force of escapism, and the fact that it's a feature is exactly my point. It involves people. It's systemic across infrastructures (whether religious, government, SJW cause, etc.). What you and Brian are implying is that Religion is bad because it's not peaceful, but nothing is. What it amounts to you both saying, when you agree that it's systemic and a feature, is that people are violent, organizations are violent, let's just not have any organizations, let's start with dismantling religion because I don't like it. Let's just be a little more honest here and call a spade a spade. The problem, and solution will be in the individual.
What I disagree with is "feeling like something helps doesn't actually make a thing a force for good. ". Believing that something is the reason for your good informs you that what you're doing is good. Feeling and belief (as well as hope, fear, justice, etc.) are because of, and the cause of, action. I'm aware this isn't always a societal agreed good, but individually, those things we perceive as being a positive sounding board, inform us that we are right (even when we aren't).
Meh, I'll let Brian handle whatever it is Brian thinks. I only put on my Brian decoder ring when shits falling apart.
I'm not even sure what to add here, ofc there are things common across this or that two things, but if there are no things unique to a specific representative than there is no differentiating one thing from another.
Your religion...for example..is fucking terrible. Historically terrible and ideologically terrible...in ways unique to itself..or, you know, not..in which case, it;s no different than any other thing and why is there even a name for it?
"Moooom! Timmy hit him toooooo!"
Yeah, maybe, but timmy had his own reasons, which were different than your reasons, or, I guess, they weren't and there's no difference between you and timmy, no difference between christianity and germanic paganism.
You tell me, lol.
On the other count, I'll just repeat that folks tell me that heroin feels great. If feelin great makes something a force for good..then heroin must be wonderful.
There are unique attributes. Should we list them all and rate them? It’s not about personally feeling good. It’s about having an objective moral authority and explination of the supernatural. If there are specific reasons modern Christianity is uniquely atrocious to society, feel free to trot them out
Btw, doing this on my phone sucks donkey balls.
@“Brian37” yes I agree we are both human, I just disagree that atheism is more rational solution.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
