Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:35 pm
Chris quote:
I am thinking of the Simon and Garfunkel song....'I man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest...'
I still insist that it is about the Ego....about 'power'.....
But...yes...you are right....we can't let them just get on with it......because they are hiding behind.....what they call their religion.
And I bloody well understand what you hold against this kind of religiousity...
There is an absolute need for an atheistic viewpoint.....but I also think that there is a need to accept a balancing point of view......that is why I want to be here......putting in my feeble input.......
When the time comes that humans want to overthrow what is, after all, just the human interpretation of religion......mixed up with power, and ego, and sentiment and false emotion.....then.....just maybe.....religion will be seen as the balancing of our rationality.......as an essential element for a balanced psyche. That's what it is to me anyway.
No, Chris, they are not following the instructions of their holy book. Just as the Christians....pick out the the convenient instructions from their holy book... when and where it suits them. The Bible is full of contradictions anyway.I don't understand how you or anyone can not blame religion for the acts of the Taliban, however, so I'm not sure how to respond at this point. They are following the instructions of their holy book and to me this means their religion is to blame. Well, their stupidity in accepting that religion is to blame.
I am thinking of the Simon and Garfunkel song....'I man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest...'
I still insist that it is about the Ego....about 'power'.....
But...yes...you are right....we can't let them just get on with it......because they are hiding behind.....what they call their religion.
And I bloody well understand what you hold against this kind of religiousity...
There is an absolute need for an atheistic viewpoint.....but I also think that there is a need to accept a balancing point of view......that is why I want to be here......putting in my feeble input.......
When the time comes that humans want to overthrow what is, after all, just the human interpretation of religion......mixed up with power, and ego, and sentiment and false emotion.....then.....just maybe.....religion will be seen as the balancing of our rationality.......as an essential element for a balanced psyche. That's what it is to me anyway.