Comments | sarcaustik: Controversial Religious Opinion.

sarcaustik

Controversial Religious Opinion.

Sep 02, 2002 19:07

A few weeks ago, one of my closest friends told me that I was a contributory factor in his continued atheism. An interventionist god, he reasoned, would not allow shit things to persistently happen to me, being as I am, apparently, nice and fluffy and mostly harmless. My counter theory, ever so slightly tongue in cheek, was that it was because of ( Read more... )

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warlockuk May 17 2004, 15:59:41 UTC

I see a lot of anti-religious sentiment such as "there's no god because of my life" type stuff, and it always confuses me that more people don't just say "there is no god because it's all a bunch of fairy tale mumbo-jumbo for those who can't deal with real life" (sorry if that's short and flippant but I'm in a rush here ( ... )

sarcaustik May 17 2004, 16:38:25 UTC

Heh! you rock! That may not have been quite what I was getting at but I certainly agree with what you say. Interesting point about prison and church and drugs though. ;-)

warlockuk May 18 2004, 04:31:25 UTC

Yeah; that's what the church is mostly used for all right.

countb May 18 2004, 03:13:29 UTC

Brilliant post, thank you.

I find disabled people finding God the saddest of all. Lets be honest here, it *isn't* going to cure you, only you can make your life better.

If thought religion might fix me I'd be the bloody Pope by now!

sarcaustik May 18 2004, 03:19:43 UTC

There's a quote about a room at Lourdes where people have abandonned their walking sticks, calipers and the like. I wish I could remember who it was and where I heard it but someone asked "Where are all the wooden legs?"

Ranting not preaching. liquefactionist May 18 2004, 08:44:08 UTC

Horrid perverts like me stole them all ( ... )

Re: Ranting not preaching. sarcaustik May 18 2004, 16:08:50 UTC

They have absolved themselves of responsibility by becoming part of a bigger group

This is exactly what I was getting at. I envy and despise them in equal measure. I'm sure I would be a lot happier if I could surpress my free-thinking, analytical side and just believe people when they tell me everything is going to be OK, but at the same time I don't think I could stand the idea of living like that. Life might suck, but I'd rather figure it out for myself than subscribe to (to borrow your phrase) a hive mentality. I don't know how those people find any sense of fulfillment when all they have really done is found an excuse for not facing up to the things which trouble them.