A slightly different tone from the usual DWR Sunday Disservice, but an important insight into the value of a change of contextual frame for those still mired in religion.
Decent people don’t jeer at others who are functioning poorly in some part of life.
With religious belief holding such an outsized influence on our society, it is reasonable that atheists, humanists and other freethinkers push back against religious superstitions, outdated social scripts and archaic rules. But one way we often do this is by ridiculing believers themselves, which is less reasonable.
We give ourselves permission to sneer because we tend to think of religious belief as voluntary and lazy, irresponsible, and harmful. We often see believers as people who have chosen not to do the work of examining their faith and asking the hard questions that could show them wrong. Their sloppy thinking frustrates us, but what really gets us going is this: Having not done their homework, they seek to impose iron age beliefs and scripts on not only themselves and their families but on the rest…
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March 3, 2019 at 1:54 pm
Jesus
These days fashionista bigotry passes for critical thinking. Some silly people think all they have to do is roll their eyes and they can bully others into submission. Real Mean Girls – of any sex!
But everything this author writes can be thrown right back in her face – especially the part about ramming absurd values down people’s throats.
Atheists are ones to talk calling others lazy, sloppy, irresponsible thinkers.
They say, why would God allow evil and suffering? This is an obvious free-will idea.
The Jewish Bible says – if you know how to read in between the lines and in between the pages – that humans did not want God ruling over them.
One could say the universe ran a little scientific experiment 6000 YA. Created a little paradise for a few test subjects to live in at the dawn of civilization. (Around the time of the invention of the wheel and irrigation.)
Formed a human out of the clay: reconstructed from DNA. But isolated the savage from the savage culture to see how things would work out.
They were naked in the garden: i.e., they were savages but they didn’t know it. “Do not eat from the tree of knowledge,” I warned them. For they would not like what they would see. Or even worse: they would see and look away choosing savagery over civilization.
Today you silly humans are way deep in the tree of knowledge. Way deep in a savage idea of civilization. Way deep in a brutal barbarian world of lies.
Still choosing evil over good. Putting on fig-leafs of Fake Virtue to justify your penchant for human sacrifice. Strutting around in fine rainments of nothing. (The masks the monsters wear to feed upon their prey.)
But why would God create humans in savage form? She didn’t. God created humans in Her own image 200,000 YA: i.e., peaceful African egalitarians. (“Blessed are the peacekeepers for they will be called the Children of God.”)
The savage patriarchs created themselves about 60,000 YA using human sacrifice and cannibalism to manufacture a permanent state of crisis. (The MOAR things change the MOAR things stay the same!)
But it’s all randomness – say people who know nothing about statistics.
Einstein rejected quantum mechanics believing in an elegant universe: God does not play dice. Niels Bohr responded: stop telling God what to do! But Boltzmann had it all figured out: out of the randomness comes order. With enough of it – and there’s an infinite amount for God to play with – you get a Boltzmann Brain.
That’s where you silly humans come into the picture – at the primitive beginning of it all.
Listen for the birth pangs! Watch for the singularity. The world has been put on the scales and hangs in the balance. The writing is on the wall. A feather could tip it either way.
If silly humans begin taking responsibility for their savage world – which previous generations have done producing two Progressive Eras – they can save themselves and give birth to real global civilization.
But if lies and corruption win out, it will fall. That’s where I come into the picture. You didn’t want God ruling over you. But after you forfeit your world by attempting to destroy it, you no longer have a say. So you better get it up!
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March 3, 2019 at 3:33 pm
Carmen
I read Valerie’s post and thought, “She has a point”. Problem is, I’m getting older, more cynical, have a short attention span, and I’m losing patience with absolute foolishness.
Like the comment above ffs.
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March 4, 2019 at 7:57 am
Jesus
If you think intolerance and bigotry are going to do anything for your cause, you are very foolish indeed!
But no biggie. You live in a world of corruption, a world of lies and world of brutality. In short: a world of foolishness. So being a fool is par for the course.
The problem is that if all the fools of the world are intolerant of all the other fools, then your world of foolishness will turn into a world of war! (3 strikes and yer outta there!)
Tolerance of foolishness is the only way!
“God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and the weak of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to bring to nothing those who are something, so that no one might boast before God.” 1 Corinthians 1:27-28
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