Religion - World biggest plague? on pair with the politics!
Walkin on a thin line here, I can see many people willing to "chase me with torchs and pointy sticks" and clear my head from such profanities. I'm not gona dwell into a philosophical point of view, I respect everyone's own opinions and beliefs, if they had formed one, but I won't and I will not give the high ground to someneone who says, "it just is", "my parents/priest/guru teached me that", "I was raised this way". A man that I really admire is Stephen Hawking and I kinda share his point of view which is: "if god exists the only thing he done was the big-bang".
I'm not a scholar on the subject, nor will I copy/paste a few facts to try and prove my theories, and I'm talking about this cos this week we had a small family gathering, an aunt came and visit, and, in the middle of chattering it always comes up youth social life, and the times I go to church (ye, right). I just nod and smile, not gona argue with someone that untill a few years thought the sun revolved around the earth, doesn't know that the cruzades were sponsored by the pope, that christianity only emerged as a big religion because christians oppressed other people against their will, and that the bible was just a gathering of texts that the council of nicea found more apropriate as a method to control the people, etc...
Well, at least their happy. Someone said ignorance is bliss, or happines. Can't remeber correctly, but I agree.
About a post in a friend's blog on the question about what is luxury. Well, luxury for me would be living in a place where bullshit only appeared on tv, oh and I'm prolly gona be called snob again, but one more, that everyone had the IQ higher then the room temperature.
Doing some browsing found some stuff that is so appaling that one eventually find it amusing. Can't verify the truthfull of the facts but I actually believe this one, America, land of the free speech.
And here's a few more links: Clambake, Nicea Council, auto de fé.
Just an add on: there were this discussions in a game chat the other day about an Italian Bishop that came on tv saying that condoms cause AIDS, and we were arguing about he was lying or not, and someone said he was not lying because he believed that to be true. Just think about it for a second.
I'm not a scholar on the subject, nor will I copy/paste a few facts to try and prove my theories, and I'm talking about this cos this week we had a small family gathering, an aunt came and visit, and, in the middle of chattering it always comes up youth social life, and the times I go to church (ye, right). I just nod and smile, not gona argue with someone that untill a few years thought the sun revolved around the earth, doesn't know that the cruzades were sponsored by the pope, that christianity only emerged as a big religion because christians oppressed other people against their will, and that the bible was just a gathering of texts that the council of nicea found more apropriate as a method to control the people, etc...
Well, at least their happy. Someone said ignorance is bliss, or happines. Can't remeber correctly, but I agree.
About a post in a friend's blog on the question about what is luxury. Well, luxury for me would be living in a place where bullshit only appeared on tv, oh and I'm prolly gona be called snob again, but one more, that everyone had the IQ higher then the room temperature.
Doing some browsing found some stuff that is so appaling that one eventually find it amusing. Can't verify the truthfull of the facts but I actually believe this one, America, land of the free speech.
And here's a few more links: Clambake, Nicea Council, auto de fé.
Just an add on: there were this discussions in a game chat the other day about an Italian Bishop that came on tv saying that condoms cause AIDS, and we were arguing about he was lying or not, and someone said he was not lying because he believed that to be true. Just think about it for a second.
posted by Paulo Duarte at 5:59 PM
1 Comments:
I would have to say the worlds biggest plaque then anything else. I know that they are intended for good and that the religions themselves teach peace. But have been misread and used in evil ways to many times for us to let them go on.
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