(June 3, 2014 at 12:48 pm)Elskidor Wrote: So was he blaming the no job thing on the losing the Jesus thing?Seems to me as if he sees it as a form of leverage. Anything he can do in the service of dragging someone back to the lord is worthwhile no matter how much pain or suffering it causes for all involved, because in some distant future they'll all be happy together in heaven (or wherever it is that mormons expect to end up).
The willingness to damage or destroy relationships today out of a belief that you can fix it all up after you are dead is just another way that religion contributes to human misery.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
