LargeBillsONLY
[09] Warrior
If I had $1 for every time God bailed me out..
I like how one of the tags is "imaginary_friends".
Pretty much sums up my feelings on the situation. There is absolutely nothing that says the Bible, or anything written before or after it, is more valid than say, ancient Nordic beliefs that detail Thor drinking up a third of the world's ocean and throwing lightning bolts at people that don't worship and make the right sacrifices. Hell, I'd argue a lot of other old-world religions often made a hell of a lot more sense. So much modern bigotry and violence has its roots in religions that claim to be peaceful that it's amazing to me at times how much bullshit people can come up with to defend it.
I find that people just have this fundamental need to believe in something. First they decide on what that is, and then the most fatal thing to human advancement happens: their mind shuts down. They stop asking question or wanting explanations. Instead they'll just defend it at all costs and try to find reasons why rather than taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture of it all.
Me? I'm just too logical for that. "Faith" where you stop asking, stop thinking, and stop questioning this authority that tells you to shut up and believe is, in a word, pathetic. Religion's been molded throughout time to fit the ruling class's mold of population control. The mold's changed so many times that there's had to be new strains of religion (like a virus) formed so it can go on.
Religion has been used throughout history as a tool to move the masses, even when many of them sprung from roots that were entirely against just that concept. It's very sad. You know how ridiculous Scientology is known to be? If you know anything about history, Catholicism can easily make that shit look legit. Scientology was formed to make money and it has been wildly successful in that. So has Christianity, but Christianity among other Judaic-offshoots has really pushed the envelope - it's been used to create war, push political agendas, justify countless lower-scaled atrocities, and yeah, just make huge amounts of money as well. Islam's just as bad too, but shit, at least they're upfront about it, what with the Quran openly talking about the destruction of infidels and whatnot.
I like how one of the tags is "imaginary_friends".
Pretty much sums up my feelings on the situation. There is absolutely nothing that says the Bible, or anything written before or after it, is more valid than say, ancient Nordic beliefs that detail Thor drinking up a third of the world's ocean and throwing lightning bolts at people that don't worship and make the right sacrifices. Hell, I'd argue a lot of other old-world religions often made a hell of a lot more sense. So much modern bigotry and violence has its roots in religions that claim to be peaceful that it's amazing to me at times how much bullshit people can come up with to defend it.
I find that people just have this fundamental need to believe in something. First they decide on what that is, and then the most fatal thing to human advancement happens: their mind shuts down. They stop asking question or wanting explanations. Instead they'll just defend it at all costs and try to find reasons why rather than taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture of it all.
Me? I'm just too logical for that. "Faith" where you stop asking, stop thinking, and stop questioning this authority that tells you to shut up and believe is, in a word, pathetic. Religion's been molded throughout time to fit the ruling class's mold of population control. The mold's changed so many times that there's had to be new strains of religion (like a virus) formed so it can go on.
Religion has been used throughout history as a tool to move the masses, even when many of them sprung from roots that were entirely against just that concept. It's very sad. You know how ridiculous Scientology is known to be? If you know anything about history, Catholicism can easily make that shit look legit. Scientology was formed to make money and it has been wildly successful in that. So has Christianity, but Christianity among other Judaic-offshoots has really pushed the envelope - it's been used to create war, push political agendas, justify countless lower-scaled atrocities, and yeah, just make huge amounts of money as well. Islam's just as bad too, but shit, at least they're upfront about it, what with the Quran openly talking about the destruction of infidels and whatnot.
