Please DO teach your children to be highly moral. I don't want people pissing in my cheerios just for the laugh. I prefer a society that is at least slightly conscientious enough to open a door for a man when he has his hands full or an old woman who has had trouble with walking recently.
However.
Before the things you say regarding religion, you should assert, "A single man, who lived 2000 years ago when people fought with swords, bows, and spears and had very little concern if any for science, said...". Then you should conclude your remarks with, "Everything that I have just said to you is entirely based on either my own personal, pathetic (pathos) experience or else the sheep-like mentality of a mindless follower."
BAAAAH, BAAAAAH. Let's just herd 'em up, and move 'em out. YEEHAW.
It is kind of confusing, though, to know that Christianity has lasted so long and with such a following. I suppose that it is either the HOPE that people are full of or the sociological factors of SHEEP-herding that has caused this continuation. (Surely it cannot be truth--that makes no sense... ...)... (Think about it...) ...
Senses = Ethos, Logos, and Pathos (in a non-rhetorical sense)
-according to Lucretius
You Raise Me Up- Josh Groban
The Ghost of Corporate Future- Regina Spektor
Curs in the Weeds- Horse Feathers
My Last Song to Jenny- The Avett Brothers
Hahaha. Love it.
ReplyDeleteIn my arrogance I've always thought my morality is superior because I've had to work it out for myself, rather than read it off the back of the cornflakes box (book of ancient jewish mythology). It was all just anti-Greek propaganda anyway, and I'm with the Greeks.
I can see the form of an essay: the power of monotheism (one truth = easy solutions) combined with the innovation of achieving redemption by proselytising.
Actually Christianity owes most of it's premise and practice to Greeko/Roman mythology. The Hebrews had no heaven or hell and sin was not a death sentence.
ReplyDeleteMorality has nothing to do with Christianity, they just like to claim it does.
And So people have belived in Christianity for 2000 years (but with a lot of changes in that time, early Christians would not recognize modern ones) . The Egyptian and Greeko/Roman gods were belived in for much longer (so leangth of time something is belived does not equal it being truth)! (mispellings due to bad dislexia, sorry)
@Tristan:
ReplyDeleteThe Bible is stuffed full of rules. Their origin is contestable (did not come from God--probably from years of a certain people viewing society and writing down their ideas). But could you maybe explain how morality--or at least the existence and proliferation of morality in the modern western sense--did not come from Christianity or Judaism?
I didn't mean to imply that all morality came from Christianity. But there is a heavy fraction of it that comes from either Christianity or the US/independent world's laws--which come from a society with heavy christian backgrounds. So at least a large portion of Western morality comes from Christianity. I am unfamiliar with the east as far as morality's origins, but i am willing to bet that Christians living in the east teach their children their own moral system.
I do not care about God's existence or non-existence, but i do care about the way people act and their rationality. Thank you for "Actually Christianity owes most of it's premise and practice to Greeko/Roman mythology. The Hebrews had no heaven or hell and sin was not a death sentence."
Much of my point in saying that the one instance of actual christian "evidence" happened 2000 years ago in a time that cared little for credibility besides what the eye can see. The other part of what I was trying to say there was that times do change, and the cultural trends do change too. The Church has been atrocious in many times; as it was, again, a source of important stability within Europe especially.
The Church is an easy topic to attack and generally does not deserve half of its criticism; though it definitely has had infinite room to improve (and has improved a WHOLE lot).
Much of my point in saying that the one instance of actual christian "evidence" having happened 2000 years ago in a time that cared little for credibility besides what the eye can see was just that--that it seemed like a magic thing (even though magic can be made into a show that seems real).
ReplyDeleteSorry, I had a bit of a grammatical-too-much-complexity issue going on.
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