RE: Who does religion care?
September 25, 2010 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2010 at 6:11 pm by The Omnissiunt One.)
As Penn says, if you genuinely believe that non-believers will fry in Hell, and belivers will get to eternal paradise, then it'd be damn cruel not to prosetylize. Fortunately, it's probably not true. That's a paradox of religious pluralism, as I see it. More traditional believers would be pretty awful people if they were more tolerant of others' beliefs. That said, I wish they'd shut up.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
