Yes. Serenely, for ever an ever, yes. I find my blood pressure rising when Christians 'debate' (and never was that word used more loosely) with atheists and write things such as 'there can be no joy, no love, no right or wrong without God'. No joy? You dare to tell me, a card-carrying Perlist (Physical Evidence and Reasoned Logic) that I have no joy? What a presumptuous arse you are, sir. I do not feel love when I hold my child? I have no sense of the numinous when I watch a sunset, hold a baby, see the glory of Jensen Ackles' butt in low-slung jeans, pour the perfect Irish whisky, read the hottest porn - oh, wait. I get it. The only sense of love and awe is one defined by you and your narrow-minded ilk.
I whooped with non-Christian joy when I read that line from Bill Maher - "Since when did we decide faith was a virtue?" Why should we ever think that the ability to be supremely uncritical in your thinking was a good thing? If that were true, people could be manipulated to work as tiny cogs in vast corporate machines for ridiculously low wages and not only never question it, they'd actually vote for the people who kept them there.
Oh, wait. Gosh, could there possibly be a link between the advocation of faith and the sustaining of a dodgy powerbase??
Nah. I'm just a godless heathen. I'll be over here with my Jensen and porn and kid and friends and happy and moral life. Pay me no mind while you send each other to each other's hells.
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Date: 2010-09-10 10:43 pm (UTC)Yes. Serenely, for ever an ever, yes. I find my blood pressure rising when Christians 'debate' (and never was that word used more loosely) with atheists and write things such as 'there can be no joy, no love, no right or wrong without God'. No joy? You dare to tell me, a card-carrying Perlist (Physical Evidence and Reasoned Logic) that I have no joy? What a presumptuous arse you are, sir. I do not feel love when I hold my child? I have no sense of the numinous when I watch a sunset, hold a baby, see the glory of Jensen Ackles' butt in low-slung jeans, pour the perfect Irish whisky, read the hottest porn - oh, wait. I get it. The only sense of love and awe is one defined by you and your narrow-minded ilk.
I whooped with non-Christian joy when I read that line from Bill Maher - "Since when did we decide faith was a virtue?" Why should we ever think that the ability to be supremely uncritical in your thinking was a good thing? If that were true, people could be manipulated to work as tiny cogs in vast corporate machines for ridiculously low wages and not only never question it, they'd actually vote for the people who kept them there.
Oh, wait. Gosh, could there possibly be a link between the advocation of faith and the sustaining of a dodgy powerbase??
Nah. I'm just a godless heathen. I'll be over here with my Jensen and porn and kid and friends and happy and moral life. Pay me no mind while you send each other to each other's hells.