i am better than u in everything you do ever and i will prove it when i beat you in everything!!
How fucked is it that we live in an age where I’m genuinely worried that if I die some fucker who I never liked has the ability to fucking make a page about something personal like my death and millions of strangers who I would have thought were shit could like it
and then people could mock me and I’d be dead so I wouldn’t be able to give them a good talking to
Sorry I think my tense is really bad
Well it just is another example of how religion for most religious people, is like a new pair of sneaks or something. They put them on when they’re in fashion, or they put them on to impress and to feel more trendy than others, or they put them on when they feel worried that they might step on something and hurt themselves. They might be worried people would judge them if they went bare foot.
But, when they wish, they take them off. There’s nothing really wrong with that, although I, personally, find it to be a character flaw that I do not wish to possess. It’s a bit weak and fickle. It is fine to change what you believe in, but have well reasoned ground for doing so. You should always question what is right/wrong (IF you have evidence to argue with) and what you believe in/disbelieve in. I have no problem with someone breaking the rules/doctrine, but if they condemn people who do the same, there is something seriously wrong. One of the problems with Christianity is that it preaches that humans are born with sin, and need to redeem themselves. The problem with Christians, is that they believe that they need to constantly apologise and redeem themselves (for mostly trivial things), yet believe that the people who feel they don’t need to apologise are some how morally inferior to them.
People who have dark pasts and find god
I mean, great! Maybe a belief in a supernatural entity has helped you to quit a debilitating addiction, get through a loved one’s passing, get through a war. Great. Seriously, at the crux of it, whatever makes you happy, do it, as long as it doesn’t affect other’s negatively. And although you might believe that preaching a religion isn’t a bad thing to do, in most cases it is inappropriate and unneeded.
A lot of the time, people with “dark pasts who find god” are people who did things that believe are not “dark” or immoral. “I used to be attracted to people of the same sex”, “I used to have sex out of wedlock”, “I used to not go to church”, “I used to smoke marijuana”. I don’t think any of those things are in anyway abnormal or wrong. I don’t think they are dark. RELIGION, and religion’s influence on society, has made people think that these things are wrong and need to be righted.
The easy way out of “wrong” and true wrong, is religion. “Forgive me god for I have sinned”-done.
It does really fucking annoy me when normal people who have now turned into crossnecks are like “I used to be like you!”, fuck you. I would rather die than devote my life to falsities, THEN have the audacity to take pity on someone because they didn’t believe in the same dogma as me.
Anyway, I hope this kinda answered that.
Many religious people love to claim that religion is the source of morality; that religious scriptures form the basis for living as a moral and good person.
To a creationist, this makes sense, as they are under the belief that we came about in a religious way. That a being created us, and therefore that religion proceeded creation (us). But since there is no reason to believe that we were intelligently designed and a plethora of reasons not to believe that we weren’t, let’s base this argument on evidence that we do have, and not on the folklore that people still hold very dear to them. There is no argument that we evolved from primates to be what we are today.
During that extremely long process, long before we had language abilities and cognitive skills to spin up ideas of how we got here and what we are meant to do here, we had quite a sound understanding of right and wrong.
A person, and even most animals, with normal mental cognition, understand that what is wrong and right. All social animals, even insects, have to modify or restrain their behaviours for group living to be worthwhile. Chimpanzees remember who did them favours and who did them wrong, and are more likely to share food with individuals who have previously groomed them. They do not need a book to tell them that it works to their advantage to treat their fellow chimpanzees in a way that they would like to be treated.
If you actually believe that Jesus was the first person to come up with this belief, to come to the realisation that peace between people is found in the reciprocality of gestures that give pleasure, comfort or help, then maybe you should do some reading, and even some thinking.
A recent study at Yale University has again proved the fact that babies, beings that have not been indoctrinated into any religion or fully understood any philosophies on morality , have a basic understanding of right and wrong. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html?pagewanted=all)
I saw this when I recently went to my baby cousin’s Greek Orthodox christening. As she was being dunked into the holy tap water, she (understandably) was screaming and wailing in distress. At the sounds of her screams, her older sister (two years old) ran over to the bath and began crying and looking around frantically for someone to help her little sister. She was throwing her arms up in the air doing the whole: “She’s obviously distressed! That man is hurting her! Why is everyone watching on and doing nothing about it!?” It’s obvious that the older older sister knew her little sister was distressed due to her cries, and this made her aware that some sort of injustice was happening. Something wrong.
Morality came before any religious thinking, and definitely before any religious scripture. The moral guides found in religious scriptures are based on being a fucking cognisant being. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” or The Golden Rule was what chimps were living by.
If someone wants to enlighten me some more, or challenge what I just said, please do!
