(July 17, 2010 at 9:46 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote:
Following a good example (which is part of observations and subjective judgements which we all do) is far seperated from replacing your own sense of self and your own subjective moral judgments and saying that you not only learned, but unquestioningly follow the authority of another entity. My morality exists with or without doctrine, it's simply a tool used to better myself. The point where someone allows religion (or any doctrine of anything) to outweigh their sense of self is the point where blindness comes into play and reason is soon out the door.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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