(January 10, 2010 at 11:37 am)Retorth Wrote:(January 10, 2010 at 11:27 am)tackattack Wrote: I think aspects of religion detract from pure belief, but I won't just dismiss a whole aspect of society so large, and allow personal responsibility to be shelved.
How do you figure dismissing religion altogether is to "allow personal responsibility to be shelved"? Unless, I am misreading it, religion being removed from the big picture, I would've thought, would put people directly responsible for their own actions instead of blaming it on something else like religion, for example.
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Exactly. Furthermore, there would be no more of this, "It must be God's will" bullshit. If something great happens in life, well, good old God must be looking out for me, praise him.However, if some tragedy strikes, it must be God testing me or I must have done something terrible to deserve his "wrath."
Religion, no matter the branch, gives people an excuse to not take personal responsibility for themselves and their actions. Most, I would imagine, don't want it for themselves because it's easier to say that God has a "plan" for them, versus saying "I don't know."
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
