Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [RELIGION] another problem with religion...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Christian M. Cepel wrote:

> You keep harping on the fact that we only believe religion because it 
> makes us feel good and we 'want' it.  So be it.  You'll hate it, but I 
> feel sorry for you sometimes.  I would HATE to be you and hate the world 
> you idealize. You suck the very marrow out of life and replace it with 
> ash and sawdust.
>
> You decry the lack of 'progress', and I think that trying to fit others 
> square pegs into your round hole definition of progress is ridiculous. 
> For you, progress would be the entire race becoming hyper-intelligent 
> automatons like yourself, utterly lacking in heart.

Religion seems to exist and be perpetuated because of social reasons, not 
because people have a craving for religion.  The stuff Christian wrote 
above is an important part of the picture: hostile rejection of the 
nonbeliever.  If you don't believe like him, you are a robot without a 
heart.  Religion has been promoted partly by the slaughtering of 
nonbelievers.  Christianity certainly worked that way.  Just look at the 
Crusades, the burning of 'heretics' at the stake, etc.

Regarding art and music -- take a look around you!  Many artists and 
musicians today are "Bohemian" types who are not very religious.  If 
anything, Christianity crushes the creative spirit and makes people into 
robot followers.  There is just no chance that a study of artists or 
musicians will find that they are more likely to be Christians than are 
randomly selected people.

Mike

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