Originally posted by apathistTwo things puzzle me about your post. Your choice of forum, and which people you thought you'd be goading. Every monotheist could, should, and almost certainly would agree with your contention that belief in gods stems from a time when mankind was in a spiritually unredeemed or childish state.
There is reality, and there is our understanding of it.
The gods thing is kind of stupid. We need to grow up, if we are important.
Originally posted by moonbusI believe by 'gods' he was referring to the idea of God and his manifestations across the various religions, rather than a direct discombobulation of polytheism. In this vain he was conjecturing, I suspect, that even a monotheistic deity was restricting the development of an adult mind.
Two things puzzle me about your post. Your choice of forum, and which people you thought you'd be goading. Every monotheist could, should, and almost certainly would agree with your contention that belief in gods stems from a time when mankind was in a spiritually unredeemed or childish state.
Pass the pickled eggs.
There's natural and unnatural and supernatural. Everything that is is natural. Things that abhor us we call unnatural, but that is, in reality, harsh and disgusting or repellent. Pick your own word. Anything mystical, magical and absent of evidence is supernatural. God and gods fall into that category.
This belongs in that other forum.
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeDeviled eggs are for Easter.
I believe by 'gods' he was referring to the idea of God and his manifestations across the various religions, rather than a direct discombobulation of polytheism. In this vain he was conjecturing, I suspect, that even a monotheistic deity was restricting the development of an adult mind.
Pass the pickled eggs.
Not pickled... ewww, just say no.
Originally posted by apathistI heard this idea before that those who profess believe in a deity are childish. Maybe its true, I dunno, but so what if it is,
There is reality, and there is our understanding of it.
The gods thing is kind of stupid. We need to grow up, if we are important.
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeA seriously lovely piece of intellectual prose there, GoaD. It would not be out of place in 'Pseud's Corner' - can I forward it? 😉
I believe by 'gods' he was referring to the idea of God and his manifestations across the various religions, rather than a direct discombobulation of polytheism. In this vain he was conjecturing, I suspect, that even a monotheistic deity was restricting the development of an adult mind.
Pass the pickled eggs.
Originally posted by The GravediggerIf it were only about imaginary friends, I could turn a blind eye to it; to each his own. Oh, but it gets so much sillier, and yet at the same time more earnest, than that! Some people will kill you for putting a slosh of rum in your eggnog, or for going about in public with so much as an eyebrow uncovered, or for educating your daughters. Sheesh.
Religious wars are people killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.
anon.
Originally posted by moonbusNews flash: The people who would do such things aren't really the best representatives of their religion. They're just really not clear on the concept.
If it were only about imaginary friends, I could turn a blind eye to it; to each his own. Oh, but it gets so much sillier, and yet at the same time more earnest, than that! Some people will kill you for putting a slosh of rum in your eggnog, or for going about in public with so much as an eyebrow uncovered, or for educating your daughters. Sheesh.
Just sayin'.
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Originally posted by SuzianneThey're altogether too clear about the wrong things! It seems to me that certain personality types are drawn to extreme forms of religion, or extreme political parties, which advocate quick fixes and propose to rid the world of its problems by immediate and convulsive activism. As someone once said, a young man wants to die heroically for a cause, whereas an old man wants to live humbly for one. I wish all angry young men in a hurry to live to a ripe old age.
News flash: The people who would do such things aren't really the best representatives of their religion. They're just really not clear on the concept.
Just sayin'.