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Post by Fidite Nemini on Sept 2, 2015 10:39:03 GMT -6
Dogmatic BS. The reason the church (-es) preach that their deity's ways are unknowable or some such is purely because they can't think of a more convincing dogma besides "that's how it is, deal with it". Also, it comes handy whenever they decide to try out some new BS and can justify it by "God acts in mysterious ways" herpaderp. If God were unknowable to us, that means he's irrational at best or utterly alien at worst. I don't have to tell you how worshipping an irrational being as a deity makes no sense for a people whose minds function rational (as much as people might disagree, the human mind and understanding is plain easily boiled down to cause and effect, so if God were unknowable, it would mean that it wasn't simply a different knowledge base and/or motivation we wouldn't understand (yet, because all that shit can be learned and thus eventually understood!), but the baseline on how its decisions are made wouldn't stand to reason at all, there would be no cause and effect rationalization) and the idea that an alien mind was giving humans instructions on how to live is laughable, because by the very nature of that dogma, humans would be able to understand any such instructions, so all that stuff in the holy texts is by all means just random gibberish that may or may not be the complete opposite or whatever it is that said God told them. And that's assuming said God was even talking to them in the first place. Maybe that incomprehensible holy message was nothing but a fart and millions of people right now are worshipping the holy flatulence with their designated deity not giving a flying shit. Religious dogma are BS. They are there specifically because without any such baseless claims or wild speculative interpretations, none of their shit would make any fucking sense. It's the same as saying 1+1=3 because 1 equals 2 half of the time, but we can't be sure because it can likewise mean that 1+1=2 if neither 1 actually equaled 2 at any given point or that 1+1=4 because both 1s equaled 2 at the point when the calculation was made, so because we can't know for sure, we should just believe that whatever the math prof says is true and sacrifice one apple each course period as worship to his holyness so we get good grades in the exams. Guh. /rantover Rant as much as you will, doesn't change one thing. That's one definition of fanaticism. Anyway, if you can't see the glaringly obvious contradiction inherent to this belief system, trying to argue with reason is plain wasted energy. Ming you, there's plenty enough religious people who are smart enough to know that some aspects of their religion are nonsense, yet chose to adhere to their general teachings because they belief them to be ethically and morally sound. Blind faith and submission to the unknowable is not one of those respectable aspects. With that said, unless someone wishes to discuss this matter, I'll just go ahead and spend my remaining time on something less stupid.
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