(April 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The CONCEPT of religion, not a particular religion, but in our species history, THE CONCEPT, is like a bad diet. It is full of empty calories that fill you up, but for the most part cause more problems than they solve.
The only proper "diet" I can conceive of is a natural version of the comic book version of the famous Christian verse "Lord grant me the wisdom to change the things I can, accept the things I can't, and the the ability to know the difference". I write this with trepidation knowing Christians will jump on me saying "SEE SEE SEE", Knowing they will claim I secretly believe. Not at all. If a Muslim and Jew and Hindu and atheist and Mormon and Sikh can all stand in a parking lot and and point to a blue car, and agree the color is blue, that is all I am doing.
It isn't that a quote from fiction OR religion does not reflect our desire for empathy and survival that bothers me. It is that religion creates a false presumption that the club invented morality and evolution.
I agree with the MOTIF, and when you look at all religions we all have the same desire to want to feel good about what we do. The problem is that it is merely a comic book reflection of our own desires. Religion teaches us to forget that we are not a separate species.
In reality outside of war, a group will welcome "outsiders" at first, when they come in without aggression. But the expectation is that the if you are the host, we still expect submission from our guests.
I just wanted to thank you for spelling quarter correctly. Your post at TTA is titled Quater pounder..., and every time I read it a single tear streams from my eye and a baby grammar nazi cries out in sorrow.
