RE: Rant Mode. Some Religious People Are Really Good.
March 17, 2015 at 3:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 3:14 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
I don't think you can call religion a 'past time'. Even the hypothetical subject in your meme could understand the difference between a videogame and real life. Religion makes claims about this reality not some facsimile of an invented one, so I wouldn't even call religion escapism at all. As much as I can chuckle at those kinds of gamers (or people that read fantasy novels 18 hours a day, etc), and I'm a big gamer and fantasy novel-reader myself, there's a huge difference between using something to escape reality, and creating an entire edifice of ideas and commandments and declarations and tenets to define the objective reality that we all share.
The moment a WoW player pickets outside city hall for the creation of a national holiday to comemmorate the defeat of the Lich King, or a GoT reader demands exemption from certain taxes because it goes against the will of The Red God, then possibly they could be comparable.
The moment a WoW player pickets outside city hall for the creation of a national holiday to comemmorate the defeat of the Lich King, or a GoT reader demands exemption from certain taxes because it goes against the will of The Red God, then possibly they could be comparable.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
