(May 8, 2013 at 2:50 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Religious people have become so scientifically and logically lazy that they would rather believe in a magical sky daddy than understand that accepting the existence of a divine deity is a byproduct of intellectual laziness.Often times I feel the same, and I'm also guilty of making fun of some of our religious contemporaries. But then I heard Sam Harris's talk on Free Will and what, if it is indeed an illusion, the consequences would be: We would have to have ultimate compassion with everyone because nobody is really in charge of what happens in their life (*). If I would've been born in a Southern Baptist state I might have need to believe these stories as well, and that is quite a humbling thought.
(*) now of course applying this to ourselfs is a fallacy and indeed would be lazy. There's a significant difference between applying this to how we feel about other's actions and our own... it's a bit paradoxical, I admit...
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
