Household Debate

[willtruncheon]

Sandy and I have been having a religious argument in our house this morning, which I want to reproduce here in the hopes that others might want to comment on it. I asked her to reproduce her side here, but she's a little too busy right now, so I'll just try to objectively boil down our respective statements here

Comments

[dcltdw]

I think... hmm, this is lj, which is such the Fount of Polished, Insightful, Carefully Reasoned Debate :) so I'm not sure, but I think you're oversimplifying. Namely, people do not lead lives that are singular in mood.

*Generally* speaking, yes, I'd agree with you -- but now I'm wielding a paintbrush four miles wide. And that's not where we (the areligious) run into contention necessarily with the religious people: it's when we're in specifics. Let's cut directly to the chase.

Somebody's mum/dad/spouse dies: oh shit, now what? That grieving stage for anyone is *complicated*, so we have to move beyond simplistic/binary declarations like the one above, even if we try to live our lives that way, and find something more nuaunced.

Yes, eventually we'll want to return to that ideal: but that takes time. And if people (myself included) use religion as their crutch, more power to them.

Urr, crutch can be read judgementally there, but I mean it objectively. As in, "I broke my leg, and I now I need this crutch to help me walk while I heal".

All that said, I may have made the faux pas of debating a different point that you were addressing; my apologies if so. :)