Andir said:
There... fixed it for you. Now as far as the debate. It is stupid. None of us can prove any of our stories. So why then must people continue to try to push their ideas on each other? You want to feel included, and that you are right. We are all arrogant sons of bitches and in doing so we are all committing sins under religion's own teachings. Arrogance is a sin. Look it up. We are all going to hell. End of story. You think the Buddhist monks high up in the hills minding their own business realize this while we tear each other down? I think the Bible did give them something. It gave them the truth of humanity. We are all egotistical, arrogant, and dominating. We push our ideas on others as if they are right, and everything else is wrong. We want to make sure that we believe what we are saying and we seek out the current form of media to try to prove it. Scrolls, printed text, the Internet.... Why? That's what works. Natural selection defined that. Only those adapted to manipulate others have come to power. Power begets power and people seek it out to prove that they are right in their own mind. Religions use the Bible, printed history, and interpretation. Others use science, reasoning, and theory. Simply arguing that we are right makes all of us arrogant. We have no sound proof, no verifiable sources (but the tainted words minced by men over thousands of years to read in the way in which they wanted in both science and the Bible) and no way to resolve this. So what do you do? ? |
I don't know. Let's put it this way. Lets say you had a really strong feeling that if someone ate a cheeseburger for lunch today he would die by choking to death.
If he doesn't eat the cheeseburger, you feel better, he hasn't choked to death. You don't know if he would have but at least he didn't.
Now lets say you warn him, and he eats the cheezeburger anwyay. You feel bad. But at least you tried. So you feel less guilty.
Now lets say you don't warn him, and he eats the cheezeburger anyway. He's dead... and you feel like a dick for not going with your instincts.
That's pretty much why many christians argue about religion as such.
Either they convince and convert someone, and either they go to heaven, or just die like the would as non christians.
Don't but try, and can be a little consoled that they tried to save said person from Hell.
Or feel like a jerk that they didn't do anything, even though they knew for a fact they were headed for eternal torment.
