(December 23, 2019 at 5:36 am)Belacqua Wrote: [edit]
I honestly don't know how somebody can experience Christian art, music, and literature, and all the writings of the various saints who were inspired to joy, and conclude that Christianity is always and only against creativity and against happiness.
It was the structure through which people made sense of the human world for a very long time. There were good results and bad results -- just as there are from our own framework.
How we work out what's good and bad, and how we make sense of the lived world is what I thought we should talk about. People used to do it through religion, and now they don't as much.
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It's not always against the creativity or happiness. There are many christian acts/activities that I consider good for society. It's the "claimed" christian motivation that I have an issue with.
Just the other day a christian claimed that "god spoke to her" and that's why she performed a charitable act. I prefer to believe that she performed the act from her own motivation.
A supernatural concept should not be a necessary factor in creativity, happiness, generosity, doing the next right thing, ....................... Claiming "god" as the motivation is the result of manipulation from another human by instilling the concept.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
