Nippon day 4 Tues (part two)

[queenortart]

Dinner not particularly successful. I don't know where I put my notebook, but will expand this when I find it. MGS in foul mood and chucked whisky over my bed.

A thought to ponder my little chickdees.

It's worth having religion, cos religious people spent lots of time / money on really cool stuff which wouldn't exist otherwise. Discuss....

Comments

[undyingking]

If you assume that all the misery, sufering etc caused in the name of religion would have otherwise been caused in the name of something else anyway, seems fair to me.

Although maybe if you assume that, you should also assume that the reall cool stuff would have been done in the name of something else too.

In my defence

[fractalgeek]

The whisky knocking over was entirely accidental and the bad mood largely caused by the totally crap service at the Chinese.

Re: In my defence

[fractalgeek]

It was the availability of veggie options on the menu, m'Lud.

Re: In my defence

[ubiquitous_cat]

What type of whisky? there's some really nice Japanese whiskeys produced these days.

[ravenrigan]

Was it a waste of good whiskey, or just a waste of whiskey?

I do rather like a good religious building, or a nice vestment. It is said that you can judge a culture by the buildings it chooses to invest in. I wonder what is says about us that our handsomest buildings are banks, financial insititutions and sporting arenas.

[adriftinthefog]

In my view religion can inspire good people to great things and make bad people a damn sight worse. Who are the greatest monsters of history - the ones who are personally depraved or the ones who think that they're the good guys? The comment also applies to ironclad atheist belief systems.
A lot of people derive great benefit from religion, but once you start analysing the merits in these terms you're using a humanistic rather than a religious argument.
I'd agree that they do produce a hell of a lot of nice architecture.