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Originally Posted by Narz  Maybe it came off a bit aggressive, not intentional. Religious people just sadden and frustrate me, that's all. |
what do you mean by 'religious people' ? Here's a 'religious person' for you
John Polkinghorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Official John Polkinghorne Website
John Polkinghorne is one of the greatest living writers and thinkers on science and religion: a truly world-class scientist turned priest, currently one of two Revd FRS (the other is the statistician Bernard Silverman) and one of only 3 Revd KBEs.
I find your sweeping judgments as narrow minded and hypocritical as you claim 'religious people' are.
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It's amusing considering that had they been born and raised in a different country and/or exposed to different beliefs during their lives they would believe completely differently (and probably equally adamantly).
I like to think that wherever I grew up I would have the mental acuity, clarity of mind and resistance to social pressure to be an atheist. Of course I can't be sure.
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ah yes, the classic sophomore.
In one part of the world someone invented the wheel. in other parts, there was no wheel. One can argue that societies with wheels did much better than societies without them, and the idea spread.
in part of the world democracies formed, in other parts of the world it did not exist, the idea spread because it was considered a better form of government. Is democracy right or wrong or just a better, but not perfectly developed form of government. the same can be said about religion/s.
So if you grew up in say, zimbawae, you would not be might grow up thinking that dictatorships are best (especially if it benefited you) and not be exposed to democratic ideas, but according to your moral reliativism there's no right or wrong or better or worse?
let me ask you this, do you think that religions are all equal? To use an extreme example is Thugee (the murder cult that existed in india what worshipped Kali) or other forms of religion that involved human sacrofice morally equal to say, pacifist Amish and Quakers.
lets see if you can bring your open minded self to let these words out of your mouth:
the religion of the amish is morally superior to thugee.
if you're born after say, 1980 I sincerely doubt you are able to say this with conviction.