Something to look over
...wow, this has to be one of the saddest things I've read all day.
http://www.fstdt.com/comments.asp?id=18017
After reading the main post, go to the third-or-so comment, you'll know which one I mean when you see it.
I mean... jeez. Fundamentalism goes way too far a lot of the time, but, seriously? That mother was so deluded and cared more for her bloody religious views than her kid's well-being... this is why I'm so anti-religion -- because it does things like this. I never want to see this happen to anyone ever again, but unfortunately, it's inevitable as religious fundamentalism continues to exist...
But on a slightly different but similar note, a similarly bigoted religious statement on the SparkNotes discussion forums prompted me to make an account and proceed to pound the poster into the ground rhetorically. Contradictions are fun -- his sentence, basically verbatim, says "If you don't believe, God will punish you forever for your sin -- come to Christ now, because I don't want that and neither does God". I just don't get how people can be so blinded, so bigoted, so uncaring for other human beings. They believe a being they have never seen, never heard a reply from, never once came into any contact with and then proceed to tell another person -- a tangible being that does exist and has a pulse, a thought process, an emotional core that they need this ghost being too or they will be subject to horror. No, sir, I do not need your faith, and if I end up suffering for eternity because of it, so be it -- at least I can suffer knowing that I was expressing rationality and doing the best I could with my life.
Anyways, I need to find a picture of someone standing with arms held out to either side so I can Robespierre-theme my desktop background. Maybe I'll hire my sister to take a picture of me... I dunno.
Still debating on whether to post my nearly-complete story up here. And, in the meanwhile, I should start working on my thesis since Mock Trial is over and done with.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~Steven Weinberg, quoted in the New York Times
http://www.fstdt.com/comments.asp?id=18017
After reading the main post, go to the third-or-so comment, you'll know which one I mean when you see it.
I mean... jeez. Fundamentalism goes way too far a lot of the time, but, seriously? That mother was so deluded and cared more for her bloody religious views than her kid's well-being... this is why I'm so anti-religion -- because it does things like this. I never want to see this happen to anyone ever again, but unfortunately, it's inevitable as religious fundamentalism continues to exist...
But on a slightly different but similar note, a similarly bigoted religious statement on the SparkNotes discussion forums prompted me to make an account and proceed to pound the poster into the ground rhetorically. Contradictions are fun -- his sentence, basically verbatim, says "If you don't believe, God will punish you forever for your sin -- come to Christ now, because I don't want that and neither does God". I just don't get how people can be so blinded, so bigoted, so uncaring for other human beings. They believe a being they have never seen, never heard a reply from, never once came into any contact with and then proceed to tell another person -- a tangible being that does exist and has a pulse, a thought process, an emotional core that they need this ghost being too or they will be subject to horror. No, sir, I do not need your faith, and if I end up suffering for eternity because of it, so be it -- at least I can suffer knowing that I was expressing rationality and doing the best I could with my life.
Anyways, I need to find a picture of someone standing with arms held out to either side so I can Robespierre-theme my desktop background. Maybe I'll hire my sister to take a picture of me... I dunno.
Still debating on whether to post my nearly-complete story up here. And, in the meanwhile, I should start working on my thesis since Mock Trial is over and done with.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~Steven Weinberg, quoted in the New York Times