(January 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Again, what I took out of it was not that people need religion, but that people do need certain things that religion is very good at conveying and that certain aspects of religion (which don't need a religious construct to be used) don't have to be discarded just because they're associated with religion.I ask again, like what?
Shit, they cherry pick their bible, why can't we cherry pick the good things out too?
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
