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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Curious Thought

by Joe Brummer @ 2:06 pm. Filed under Atheism, Joe's Rants, Nonviolence

Has it ever dawned on any of the major religions that are based on the God of Abraham that when humans were too evil and sinning too much god attacks them with fire and brimstone or mass floods. BUT when another of God’s creations (Satan) sins, creates evil and becomes god’s nemesis, he gets his own place complete with a fire pit? Sorry, but that baffles the shit out of me.

Today, I read that a father has murdered his own daughter over a religious dispute. A few days ago, a young boy shot up two churches killing others and himself. Mitt Romney is being attacked for his beliefs by Mike Huckabee who also believes his religion is the right one. Well, guess what boys, you both cannot be right but it is possible you are both wrong! The fact of the matter that makes me so sad is to see so much turmoil over something with so little evidence of existence. If people would just stop fighting over who is right and who is wrong about god and look at the evidence for god from a scientific approach for evidence, examine what we have, I wonder if we would still be fighting and killing each other?

I find all the violence, killings, discrimination and turmoil just sad.

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One Response to “Curious Thought”

Emproph Says:
December 13th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I read this earlier today. I liked the addict analogy:

“The real issue with these people is not their specific faiths. It’s their addiction to thinking they are right. It’s an addiction to believing they have a corner on the market of truth. In other words, it’s an addiction to a “made-truth,” that is, to a belief that the truths they’ve created in their minds are indeed absolute truths and that everyone else must be made to believe in the same truths lest they perish.
They are addicts. And like other addicts, they do not respond to logic or sound arguments. Like other addicts, in order to feel good, they must believe that their made-truth is the only reality, and they must, therefore, defend that truth against any outside influence. Like other addicts, anyone who threatens to keep them from believing their made-truths is seen as a threat to their own good feelings - or in other words, to be opposed to their brand of made-truth is to be a threat to their personal value as humans, and thus they will attack with ferocity anyone who even questions their veracity…”

Sometimes “being right” requires acknowledging that you’re wrong, or at least being willing to acknowledge that you may be wrong.

It’s hard on the ego, but it’s necessary if one considers actually being right to be more important than just thinking you’re right.