(February 14, 2012 at 2:52 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:(February 14, 2012 at 2:45 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Is it true that there is really nothing to lose by worshiping god?No.
Even if there's a god you lose all self-respect and dignity for starters, and then there's the staggering irretrievable amount of time you wasted praying to this deity during your one-and-only life.
Muslims who pray 5-a-day have my sympathies.
This is exactly what I say. I would lose my dignity, and waste my time following rules that I don't believe in, and then I would have to worry about some omniscient freak watching my every move. Yeah, not exactly attractive to me...
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
