RE: Living without religion
April 25, 2013 at 8:50 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 8:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-Indeed, and I'll add...because -it is- nothing. Helping people on trains, just generally helping each other is thoroughly and commonly human. There's nothing remarkable about it - and perhaps this is what really irritates me the most about religions that attempt to convince a person that they are broken. The notion that we're a lot of ravenous degenerates doesn't hold water, and it takes an unfortunately fucked with individual to see something divine or some divine purpose in everyday human kindness - or the perception that the same sort of everyday human-humanaity - is a break from the norm.
As far as religious automatons go, I'd say that a person who paints any of this religion bullshit over their many acts of kindness both minor and major is -precisely- the kind of motherfucker we should have cameras pointed at. No telling what they'll do if they have a crisis of faith.
Similarly, imagining a god, if someone were to look up after such a common act (a category that comprises the vast majority of good things that one might do)and say "look, good deeds" I can only see a god saying "you and everybody else- now get your tongue out of my asshole".
As far as religious automatons go, I'd say that a person who paints any of this religion bullshit over their many acts of kindness both minor and major is -precisely- the kind of motherfucker we should have cameras pointed at. No telling what they'll do if they have a crisis of faith.
Similarly, imagining a god, if someone were to look up after such a common act (a category that comprises the vast majority of good things that one might do)and say "look, good deeds" I can only see a god saying "you and everybody else- now get your tongue out of my asshole".
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