(October 14, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The very height of arrogance is to believe you are on a mission sanctioned by a deity, and that everyone that hasn't received said message is just looking in an incorrect manner and living their life wrong. On the extremely small chance that there truly is a deity, how we live our lives are between us and it, not some jerk on the internet that thinks he's figured all of life's mysteries out.
This. Absolutely this. For those who do engage in such behaviour, it's little (if anything) more than an ego trip in fancy dress; an opportunity for people of little self-worth to make themselves feel special, chosen, better than everyone else. As a wise man once said, "They're just using religion as an excuse to be extremely crappy towards each other."
What's really sad about the whole exercise is that more often than not and before too long, such people become so addicted to their 'holy mission' that even to consider the possibility they may be wrong becomes a major threat. After all, once the bubble of their delusion is burst, there's a danger that all their little insecurities might come tumbling out and they might, just might, have to come face to face with the terrifying prospect that they're just as human as everybody else.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
