(January 23, 2022 at 8:57 pm)Lobster Lover Wrote:(January 23, 2022 at 2:53 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: "I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith."
-Baruch Spinoza
It's due to a hasty desperation to become what one isn't before one is ready.
I personally think that it's because hatred and animosity are what is taught in many religious environments, but (ironically) the virtues named in these self-same environments are love, peace, charity etc. Sometimes, such cognitive dissonance may stem from an individual's "unreadiness." But it's fair to point out contradictions in the message too.
