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RE: Sheep spend their time being entertained. Empowered men and women spend their time creating power and then applying power to accomplish good.
nope.
exactly the opposite.
religion was invented by the ruling class to keep the peasants in line.
That is an important part of the "religion at its worst" part. But focusing on that blinds you to the other important aspects of religion.
You might well have no use for religious myth and ritual and rules. But embracing a biased view of religion in order to justify your rejection of it isn't necessary. If you are a truly "free mind", you won't be threatened by the wonderful "religion at its best" part of the whole truth about religion.
Religion at its best is a very very good thing, and deserves credit for much of the comfort and security that you and I take for granted every day.
I'm not rejecting it so much as ignoring it.
Kinda like post moderistic cubo centric surrealism.
I don't care.
I'm skeptical regarding your motives, but of course that's your business. When an otherwise obviously intelligent and informed person expresses an apparently biased, one sided, negative assessment of some thing, that's a good indicator that the person has a stake in the issue. With religion, the stake is obvious, since religion purports to dictate what is moral to do and what is immoral so should not be done. No one wants to be told what he can and cannot do.
I have no motive.
neither do I have any interest in heroin..
not of me...but do what you wanna do.
But think of how easy your life would be if you didn't have to think. You just follow all of the rules. And there's a nifty bonus, too, in that you can feel superior to everyone who, unlike you, does not possess the "truth".
It is actually fun to bash religion.
But think of how easy your life would be if you didn't have to think. You just follow all of the rules
Get married.
:) Good night. I just got some software to work. It was pleasant to have someone to chat with while doing that.
nite..