| sebastian_dangerfield |
05-24-2005 05:16 PM |
Sorry, Flinty, nothing personal
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Originally posted by Spanky
OK - but is the source of your personal ethics and morality come from this creator or from yourself?
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From myself. I don't know why, but for some unexplained reason, doing awful things to people just doesn't make me feel good. Call me crazy.
Its evolutionary. Being a rational, sensible person, I understand that its better for all of us to try to get along. It benefits my survival to be tolerant of others. Religion, on the other hand, as its practiced by fundamentalists, eschews tolerance in favor of obedience. In that regard, its a great guidepost...
If you don't have enough goddamned innate common sense to know on your own that you should be decent to your fellow man.
Everything St. Francis or Jesus taught could be deduced from a common sense analysis of the world around you.
None of this "wisdom" you credit to a higher power came from a higher power. Its cobbled together fables which people used over centuries to provide a laundry list of dos and don'ts for people who wouldn't know how to act on their own. Religion is offensive because it assumes man is too stupid to behave on his own accord.
Oh, its fucking silliness. I'd like to believe there was a religion that had the answer. Its hardly comforting to deal with the fact that you probably aren't going anywhere when you die, but its just impossible for me to lie to myslef and buy into your kind's horseshit fantasies. If there's a God, I'll know when I'm dead, and [s]he'll probably treat me well based on my deeds. But I can't imagine God could give a rat's ass about whether I believe in any particular religion. You know its a farce. You just don't want to admit it because that makes morality seem all that more overwhelming. Thats the handle on all the super-religious - they think their zeal can overcome their doubts. But it never really works, does it? |
