The Arrogance of Christianity

[Europa]

Your pastor can not promise anyone eternal paradise after death, but he can make you believe that afterlife exists if you let him and thats all that matters. The whole "premise of the fucking religion" is not the accuracy of it's teachings but willingness to belief its accuracy.


Whether the afterlife promised by your pastor exists or not doesn't matter in the slightest, all that matters is if you believe it or not. If you do, then this does several things:


1) Makes you comfortable death, assuming that you have lived a life that is in line with those beliefs. This means that you will live your life according to those beliefs to the best of your ability if you truly believe in heaven/hell.


2) Makes you comfortable with the death of loved ones, assuming YOU BELIEVE they have lived a life that is in line with those beliefs. This means that people will not only live by their code of ethics, but will try to get others to live by them as well (also ensuring the spread of the religion).


Examples for Christianity:
Matthew 7:12
Matthew 25:34-40
Matthew 6:14-15



Are you understanding any of this?

[Phanatic]

Originally Posted by Europa

The whole "premise of the fucking religion" is not the accuracy of it's teachings but willingness to belief its accuracy.

Which makes it fundamentally flawed. To accept religion, you have to lower your guard of common sense and critical thinking, and believe in secondhand accounts (from people who were tripping balls on deleriants) of the supernatural? Sounds like a book I'd rather leave on the shelf.

[Yggdrasil]

^ Thank you. At least someone gets my point. Having blind faith in non-empirical evidence is not a virtue, and is at the very least a refuge to the weak-minded.

[The Rudeboy]

Originally Posted by Phanatic

Which makes it fundamentally flawed. To accept religion, you have to lower your guard of common sense and critical thinking, and believe in secondhand accounts (from people who were tripping balls on deleriants) of the supernatural? Sounds like a book I'd rather leave on the shelf.

You do the same thing believing anything else. Evidence is interpreted.

[BrokeProphet]

Originally Posted by The Rudeboy

You do the same thing believing anything else. Evidence is interpreted.

Yes, and in science it is interpreted with a standard.

In religion it is interpreted with a standard a six year old might use.

Wake up children.

[Yggdrasil]

Originally Posted by BrokeProphet

Yes, and in science it is interpreted with a standard.

In religion it is interpreted with a standard a six year old might use.

Wake up children.

Once again, BP makes a very valid point. In science, we use standards by which all things are analyzed and classified: among them the principal scientific method. No whoo-ha's, if's, and's or buts. Religion can contort whatever they deem as evidence of their deity as much as they like, but their fallacious logic will always show.

[Yggdrasil]

Originally Posted by BrokeProphet

Yes, and in science it is interpreted with a standard.

In religion it is interpreted with a standard a six year old might use.

Wake up children.

Once again, BP makes a very valid point. In science, we use standards by which all things are analyzed and classified: among them the principal scientific method. No whoo-ha's, if's, and's or buts. Religion can contort whatever they deem as evidence of their deity as much as they like, but their fallacious logic will always show.

[The Rudeboy]

Originally Posted by BrokeProphet

Yes, and in science it is interpreted with a standard.

In religion it is interpreted with a standard a six year old might use.

Wake up children.

Totse is going to die tomorrow and that weak old rebuttal on the choice of deciding to look at things in a different perspective as "childish" is the best you can do?

I would tell you to wake up but its too late for that.