07-09-2017, 12:11 PM
(07-09-2017, 10:36 AM)xxlt Wrote: 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...
What's funny to me is that I just read this after changing into basketball shorts and a tshirt after coming home from church.
But in all seriousness, my faith teaches me that every person is responsible for their own actions. Each person is both a sinner and a saint and to blame their actions on teachings of your religion, whether good or bad, is pointless. My particular brand of Christianity teaches us that using, interpreting it, to affirm our opinions is not how we are supposed to use scripture. But, that is what a ton of people do. They don't start with the scripture, they start with an opinion that they want to affirm. That is what leads to this corruption of religion, and it happens because people are human, and humans are flawed.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
