bellisarius
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Or Religion vs Evolution if you choose.
Before I dive in let me state up front that I reject any, and all, forms of organized religion.
From a young age I studied religions, every one that I could read about. All of them professed to know the 'truth.' And most of them demanded that I give them part of my wealth so they could spread the 'truth.'
Invariably their truths were based on HOW you should follow THEIR particular truth.
BUT
Going back as far as I've been able to discover ALL of these religions have a common denominator as far as ethics within their own tribe.
All of these many and varied religions have 'rules.' And if you divorce the rules from the religions you find that they are remarkably alike. So I think, why? Well, the only reason that makes any sort of sense to me is that those particular 'rules' are the only way you can create anything that can be called an "organized" society.
Pick up any core work of any great religion, Islam excepted, it's garbage, and you'll find rules to live be, rules to raise your children by. Take the Bible for example. Divorce every phrase in that book that refers to God and read it as if it were written by Shakespeare. Fiction with a historical perspective. While fiction is, indeed, fiction there can be no doubt that humanity takes a great many lessons form fiction. There were as many observational truths in "Forrest Gump" as there were flaws. Fiction is nothing more than a tool to focus the mind on the important lessons the life has to put on your plate.
You can not claim on the one hand that others are to blame for your lot in life and on the other adhere to free will. To do so is to condemn yourself to perpetual slavery. You have admitted to yourself, and society, that you have no control over your own life.
You can not claim on one hand that you are an evolutionary products of apes and yet on the other that you are immune from the evolutionary imperatives that being the monkey your are brings with it.
Society violates the rules of order at it's own peril
Before I dive in let me state up front that I reject any, and all, forms of organized religion.
From a young age I studied religions, every one that I could read about. All of them professed to know the 'truth.' And most of them demanded that I give them part of my wealth so they could spread the 'truth.'
Invariably their truths were based on HOW you should follow THEIR particular truth.
BUT
Going back as far as I've been able to discover ALL of these religions have a common denominator as far as ethics within their own tribe.
All of these many and varied religions have 'rules.' And if you divorce the rules from the religions you find that they are remarkably alike. So I think, why? Well, the only reason that makes any sort of sense to me is that those particular 'rules' are the only way you can create anything that can be called an "organized" society.
Pick up any core work of any great religion, Islam excepted, it's garbage, and you'll find rules to live be, rules to raise your children by. Take the Bible for example. Divorce every phrase in that book that refers to God and read it as if it were written by Shakespeare. Fiction with a historical perspective. While fiction is, indeed, fiction there can be no doubt that humanity takes a great many lessons form fiction. There were as many observational truths in "Forrest Gump" as there were flaws. Fiction is nothing more than a tool to focus the mind on the important lessons the life has to put on your plate.
You can not claim on the one hand that others are to blame for your lot in life and on the other adhere to free will. To do so is to condemn yourself to perpetual slavery. You have admitted to yourself, and society, that you have no control over your own life.
You can not claim on one hand that you are an evolutionary products of apes and yet on the other that you are immune from the evolutionary imperatives that being the monkey your are brings with it.
Society violates the rules of order at it's own peril