RE: Believing Vs Claiming to Believe
November 8, 2013 at 11:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2013 at 11:42 am by Minimalist.)
Quote:It's about God. Not people.
There is no fucking god. There are people. And they believe some really stupid shit.
It has to do mainly with indoctrination.
Quote:If we had opened our eyes to the light under the shadows
of St. Peter's at Rome, we should have been devout Catholics; born in the Jewish quarter of Aleppo, we should have contemned Christ as an
imposter; in Constantinople, we should have cried "Allah il Allah, God is great and Mahomet is his prophet!" Birth, place, and education give us our faith. Few believe in any religion because they have examined the evidences of its authenticity, and made up a formal judgment, upon
weighing the testimony. Not one man in ten thousand knows anything
about the proofs of his faith. We believe what we are taught; and those are most fanatical who know least of the evidences on which their creed is based.
--Brig. Gen Albert Pike, C.S.A.
