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kooka_lives - the part I will always find remarkable is the assumption of a
superior moral position while not having the foggiest idea of what it entails.
In their minds; morality equals faith and subsequently equals subscription to their religion. As you mention, they spend so much time attempting to prove this unsupportable notion that they cannot identify social inequity even if it bites them on the ass.
You do have to see the humor in it however. The self described seekers of truth and light, guardians of all that is righteous and usurpers of the moral high ground, to a great extent are the greatest contributors to making a society less functional, certainly less equitable and just.
posted by
gomedome
on January 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM
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I know the kind of posts you are talking about
I kept going onto such posts and defending homosexuals and the response would often be 'What are you hiding'; as if they only reason a person would ever defend a group was because they were a member of that group.
Funny thing is I do know there have been a time or two that I defended something about Christianity and with everything else I have defended here on Blogit, by the logic used by those who write such posts, I am a black-Hispanic-Muslim-homosexual-Christian-pagan-woman and a member of the Church of Satan just to start the list off.
These people just do not understand that you can defend the rights and life styles of a group you disagree with without changing your own ideas and lifestyle. They are too busy making it clear their religious ideas and morals are the superior religious ideas and morals and that no other set of ideas have any value to them. And because of this need to be superior they are unable to see the flaws in their own ideas.
posted by
kooka_lives
on January 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
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Sunnybeach7 - I agree, the circumstances only need the right ingredients
A predominent religion and human nature will generally insure that members of the majority group will find means of excluding others.
posted by
gomedome
on January 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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Gome....
Circumstances like this abound.
Sometimes I just sit in wonder of how people are able to contradict themselves repetitively... some all the while making no real logical sense.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on January 25, 2009 at 9:22 AM
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elinjo - first off - a belated welcome to Blogit
That is very true, no one can argue what you are saying, only the fact that it begins with "if" . . makes it problematic.
posted by
gomedome
on January 25, 2009 at 9:19 AM
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Xeno-x - but then the insidious foibles of religious subscription kicked in
It's really the selling of religion and certain beliefs that are the problem. The underlying message is always a set of good ideas but to sell it, those ideas must be elevated above all other beliefs. Then inevitably all worthy ideals are usurped by the religion as further sell points, all members of that religion are convinced that they alone represent those worthy ideals . . . then as the social conditioning, self justifications and communal pressures are all firmly entrenched by virtue of a religion reaching critical mass, exclusionism is inevitable.
It's those damn salesmen that started the problem.
posted by
gomedome
on January 25, 2009 at 9:10 AM
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Re: Excellent point!
ash_pradhan - thanx for stopping in
posted by
gomedome
on January 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM
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hatred
If we all took the trouble to find out a little bit more about our adversaries and their histories we might hate them a little bit less.
Best wishes Elinjo
posted by
elinjo
on January 25, 2009 at 6:40 AM
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the founders ofm ost religions did not preach hate
nor exclusivism
but inclusiveness.
even Early Christian writings
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM
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Excellent point!
posted by
ash_pradhan
on January 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM
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