RE: Religious Tolerance
August 29, 2014 at 7:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2014 at 8:02 pm by pocaracas.)
Other people's beliefs I tolerate.
Other people's beliefs being imparted on yet other people, like so often happens with children, make me cringe... but I recognize there's nothing I or anyone else can do about it.
Other people's beliefs impacting on my life make me mad. I no longer call those people religious... I call them delusional. They hate it. They can't refute it. They get offended. I get offended by their gullibility and delusionability(does this word exist?)
They want respect? They need to respect others, first!
Stop wearing medieval instruments of torture around your necks. Stop putting them on top of your buildings. Stop your stupid bells that toll every hour, and toll harder when it's time to attend your temple gatherings. I don't want to even know that those exist. Get out of our schools. Get out of our vocabulary: every time someone says "god willing, this will happen", I just reply "and if he (Portuguese doesn't really have an 'it') doesn't will it, then just work harder typo get it done", or "we kick his butt and do it anyway".
Get out of the billboards. Those are for advertising. Why would someone need to advertise a belief, if not to make money of it?
Think, people, think! It's not hard.
However, religion Is still the best opium of the masses (hmmmm, where have I heard this, before?), still the best psychologist. To replace it with something else requires a lot more applied psychology than is going into police style crowd control...
Many people can live without religion... some cannot, or require a substitute, but which?
Other people's beliefs being imparted on yet other people, like so often happens with children, make me cringe... but I recognize there's nothing I or anyone else can do about it.
Other people's beliefs impacting on my life make me mad. I no longer call those people religious... I call them delusional. They hate it. They can't refute it. They get offended. I get offended by their gullibility and delusionability(does this word exist?)
They want respect? They need to respect others, first!
Stop wearing medieval instruments of torture around your necks. Stop putting them on top of your buildings. Stop your stupid bells that toll every hour, and toll harder when it's time to attend your temple gatherings. I don't want to even know that those exist. Get out of our schools. Get out of our vocabulary: every time someone says "god willing, this will happen", I just reply "and if he (Portuguese doesn't really have an 'it') doesn't will it, then just work harder typo get it done", or "we kick his butt and do it anyway".
Get out of the billboards. Those are for advertising. Why would someone need to advertise a belief, if not to make money of it?
Think, people, think! It's not hard.
However, religion Is still the best opium of the masses (hmmmm, where have I heard this, before?), still the best psychologist. To replace it with something else requires a lot more applied psychology than is going into police style crowd control...
Many people can live without religion... some cannot, or require a substitute, but which?
