07-09-2017, 10:36 AM
(07-08-2017, 04:41 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I would say cult in your example, but almost every death/war I can think of based on religion had ulterior motives and religion was only used by those in power to gain support.
You know its funny. It feels like a lot of religious folk would agree with you. But it is like they want to assert the primacy of religion when it can take credit for anything good, and then deny it had any role in anything bad. It just seems intellectually dishonest to me. But then, some people say religion isn't an intellectual endeavor - it's all about faith and facts and logic don't matter. I don't know...
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
