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Originally Posted by SpankyMcLankey
I'm just trying to say, most hard core christians I have met hardly have any direction in their life. Usually very socially awkward people, that's all. I've never dug much deeper to find anything else out about them because they are generally un-interesting people to me. Like I said, I'm not directing this at anyone. I could say the same for some hard core catholics, pretty much the same general idea to me. I know they are very different when it comes down to the details, but that's just it, religion shouldn't be about details like praying a certain amount of times for a certain sin, etc.. I've hard a couple friends that were both hard core christian/catholic and we got along great, we just always had to avoid religion in conversations. hahah
Another thing I think about often is how christians generally turn to God in times of need more than any other time. It's like "they" try to use it as an emotional stepping stone. Some of "them" don't even question the bible(or their own beliefs for that matter) at all.
If you have never seen Pen and Tellers Bullshit about the Bible, it's a good one.
I like to think of religion as this clip....
Dailymotion - The Final Exam-Mormons are the answer - a News & Politics video |
it's true: very many people do not question what they grew up with. it's a mentality we all share at one point or another, whether we'd like to admit to it or not. i consider it a natural inclination, selected for generation after generation to foster an allegiance to behaviors which were proven to yield survival. in a very real way the dark ages still reverberate within our society. but our abilities to reason and imagine give us a clearer vantage and allow us greater freedom over our behaviors. one of the results of putting it to use is the technological civilization we enjoy today, and in a way i could argue that all damage done by our technology has at its root the dark age mentality of maintaining the status quo.
anyway, overcoming religion is not the answer to overcoming this affinity of ours. it's a deeper problem that commonly expresses itself
through religion, but it's just as likely to be found anjywhere throughout the entire spectrum of human experience