Some people can't do without religion.
Posted on: January 25, 2007 - 8:28pm
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Some people can't do without religion.
I don't subscribe to the whole "what if those poor people can't cope without..." phillosophy, if only because I flat out refuse to consider myself "superior".
There are millions doing without religion, and doing just fine (or at least no worse), and they're not some kind of 'ubermenchen'.
~Let us be reasonable~
You want to claim there's such a thing as "the supernatural"? Fine. I hereby declare you to be "paracorrect" in doing so.
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They could find some other philosophy, or at least a hobby. Or a non-religious charity to work for.
My friend is a paraplegic/amputee in a wheelchair and has enough trouble coping without dropping a belief in god. A couple of weeks ago, I explained that the Christian religion has been proven false. She didn't take that very well. She still isn't really speaking to me.
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Even if some people really need their religion, that doesn't mean that the rest of us should stick with it.
"What right have you to condemn a murderer if you assume him necessary to "God's plan"? What logic can command the return of stolen property, or the branding of a thief, if the Almighty decreed it?"
-- The Economic Tendency of Freethought
Agreed.
I'm in a bit of a turmoil over my strong feelings against religion and the idea that we should live and let live. I find myself vacillating a lot. I just posted something on another forum that quite probably will get me flamed: All fundamentalist Christians are untrustworthy.
That's a pretty bold statement, but I've spent the last twenty years trying to give fundies a chance and have had nothing but negative experiences with them. I don't like them. I don't trust them. Am I a bigot? I don't know. All I know is that they've hurt me for the last time because I'll never let another one beyond my defenses.
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Imagine that; people talking and listening to... people.
~Let us be reasonable~
You want to claim there's such a thing as "the supernatural"? Fine. I hereby declare you to be "paracorrect" in doing so.
Seems to me religion only made it harder for your friend to cope with reality. I think this really is the kind of 'can't do without' that's on par with addiction. Never really solving anything, and ultimately causing extra problems. He/She rejected a real human friend over it.
~Let us be reasonable~
You want to claim there's such a thing as "the supernatural"? Fine. I hereby declare you to be "paracorrect" in doing so.
It looks that way. Sigh. Maybe I should learn to STFU a bit more. But the whole religious "thing" is a central part of my life.
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