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I quite liked this topic, and I think we can still squeeze a little life out of it if we try, like some sort of religious discussion containing toothpaste tube.
So yeah, heres a thought that vaugly relates to the fndamentalism discussion earlier; What if faith is less of something that depends on our imagination as Vortex put it, but more of an evouloutionary pre-disposed 'sheep' mentality. The reasoning behind this is that there are so few 'fundamentalists', while a large portion of people would say they are positive god exists, as well as heaven, hell and all that stuff. Well, if you were 100% sure you were going to win a bet, would't you put more than a tenner on it? Course not, you would put everything you can find on it, which is precisely why it baffles me why there are so few so called religious 'extremists' out there. If I was sure it was for the greater good and therefore get me to heaven, I'd do whatever the bible told me to. Kill homosexuals, burn witches... You get the idea.
Picking and chosing from your scripture is like playing chicken with eternal dangation, and if its eternal bliss, 4x (47 or 42? I can't remember.. Aw well) virgins or simply to avouid burning in a lake of sulphur, surely it makes sense to follow everything you interpret from the bible as closely as possile.
Of course if would be benificial for society if all these 'extremists' werent so murderous and whatnot, but what they do makes perfect sense. Much more sensible to live a life of chastity, treating women as inferior and to beat up fabulous people (depending of course on your interpretations of the bible, providing you ommited <u>nothing</u
than to go to church an odd sunday.
But yeah... I've smoked a lot of blow today, so if anyody feels like poking holes in my argument, please do so.
So yeah, heres a thought that vaugly relates to the fndamentalism discussion earlier; What if faith is less of something that depends on our imagination as Vortex put it, but more of an evouloutionary pre-disposed 'sheep' mentality. The reasoning behind this is that there are so few 'fundamentalists', while a large portion of people would say they are positive god exists, as well as heaven, hell and all that stuff. Well, if you were 100% sure you were going to win a bet, would't you put more than a tenner on it? Course not, you would put everything you can find on it, which is precisely why it baffles me why there are so few so called religious 'extremists' out there. If I was sure it was for the greater good and therefore get me to heaven, I'd do whatever the bible told me to. Kill homosexuals, burn witches... You get the idea.
Picking and chosing from your scripture is like playing chicken with eternal dangation, and if its eternal bliss, 4x (47 or 42? I can't remember.. Aw well) virgins or simply to avouid burning in a lake of sulphur, surely it makes sense to follow everything you interpret from the bible as closely as possile.
Of course if would be benificial for society if all these 'extremists' werent so murderous and whatnot, but what they do makes perfect sense. Much more sensible to live a life of chastity, treating women as inferior and to beat up fabulous people (depending of course on your interpretations of the bible, providing you ommited <u>nothing</u
than to go to church an odd sunday.But yeah... I've smoked a lot of blow today, so if anyody feels like poking holes in my argument, please do so.
