A matter of faith
Scott Adams has been having an interesting set of blog entries on his blog as of late. Centered about the topic of religion he's asked over a few days such questions as 'why do you believe 'your religion' and not another?', and 'what do you think GOD (allah, jehova, whatever) thinks of the other 4 billion people who don't share the same religion as you?'
Now, I'm all good for a few laughs with religious discussions. And normally I wouldn't be inclined to blog about the topics on another person's blog, but several things have struck me as particularly notable.
1. The tendency of people to use the doctrine of their religion to support their reasons for following that religion. And I'm not talking the book so-and-so says do good things doctrine. No I'm talking about the book so-and-so says not to follow false prophets, and the other religion is differnt so their prophet must be false.
1a. the sheer number of people who spouted this nonsense and had obviously never bothered to even ask a question about the other faith. You could tell which those were by the mass market assumptions that they made. Of all the arguments that were made... to me the best ones were by people who had either taken the time to actually inform themselves, or those who had been religion shopping.
2. Particularly notable was the hatred. Once again I think that the majority of this came from the mindless religion drones that don't have the sense to inform themselves. One person was even so blatant in their anger toward another group as to comment that the other group shouldn't be allowed to comment because they were just a drug-induced cult. (Honestly, that comment upset me. The group being attacked by this commenter had some of the politest responses and would probably not be considered a cult by most people)
2a. Of course, seeing all the hatred only helped me to see once again why vast portions of the world hate americans. When vast portions of the world are controlled more by religious governments rather than secular ones, and we go about insulting these other religions and sometimes outright calling them murderers, rapists and other horrible things I can see how that would be upsetting.
I also noticed a small number of people trying to gain converts through the comments. Which is kinda annoying.
I'll finish off with another annoyance that I noticed... the 'my religion has done no wrong stance.' Many of the 'christians' mentioned how islam was so warlike and how they only got the numbers they do because they converted people by force. And then they acted like the christians had never done anything like that, as if christainity had spread peacefully and that's how it's the "right" religion. Whether they truly didn't know, or thought it was a hoax by the 'non-believers' was hard to tell, but it's scary how many people actually seemed to think that. I would like to think that one day those people will pick up a history book, and read about all the atrocities committed in god's name and the cultures destroyed, but for some reason I fear that if they don't already know it they will never learn it.
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Now, I'm all good for a few laughs with religious discussions. And normally I wouldn't be inclined to blog about the topics on another person's blog, but several things have struck me as particularly notable.
1. The tendency of people to use the doctrine of their religion to support their reasons for following that religion. And I'm not talking the book so-and-so says do good things doctrine. No I'm talking about the book so-and-so says not to follow false prophets, and the other religion is differnt so their prophet must be false.
1a. the sheer number of people who spouted this nonsense and had obviously never bothered to even ask a question about the other faith. You could tell which those were by the mass market assumptions that they made. Of all the arguments that were made... to me the best ones were by people who had either taken the time to actually inform themselves, or those who had been religion shopping.
2. Particularly notable was the hatred. Once again I think that the majority of this came from the mindless religion drones that don't have the sense to inform themselves. One person was even so blatant in their anger toward another group as to comment that the other group shouldn't be allowed to comment because they were just a drug-induced cult. (Honestly, that comment upset me. The group being attacked by this commenter had some of the politest responses and would probably not be considered a cult by most people)
2a. Of course, seeing all the hatred only helped me to see once again why vast portions of the world hate americans. When vast portions of the world are controlled more by religious governments rather than secular ones, and we go about insulting these other religions and sometimes outright calling them murderers, rapists and other horrible things I can see how that would be upsetting.
I also noticed a small number of people trying to gain converts through the comments. Which is kinda annoying.
I'll finish off with another annoyance that I noticed... the 'my religion has done no wrong stance.' Many of the 'christians' mentioned how islam was so warlike and how they only got the numbers they do because they converted people by force. And then they acted like the christians had never done anything like that, as if christainity had spread peacefully and that's how it's the "right" religion. Whether they truly didn't know, or thought it was a hoax by the 'non-believers' was hard to tell, but it's scary how many people actually seemed to think that. I would like to think that one day those people will pick up a history book, and read about all the atrocities committed in god's name and the cultures destroyed, but for some reason I fear that if they don't already know it they will never learn it.
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