he's barely through leviticus and he already knows it's full of shit.
DUH! 'CUZ IT IS!
at leviticus, shit, by now god has already determined how much he hates women, gay people and PORK! whether it's the bible or the koran or whatever, i mean, if you really take the time to read the mutherfucker, there is no way one could actually take any of it seriously! but xtrians don't do that. muslims don't do that. or, if they do, they just pick and choose, blinded by idiot teachings of their youth. if the book i'm reading tells me that if i leave this organization my penalty will be death and it will be just, then you better bet i'm gonna be questioning the shit outta that mutherfucker.
instead, the delusional continue to be delusional and this is actually a problem. a HUGE problem. and i'm seeing it everywhere, in places it should NEVER EVER EVER be, like the US presidential race.
here is a recent comment on the project reason website's recent post fearing the theoretical decision-making skills of one delusional rick perry:
I have no basis in experience with Perry to say this, but I’ll venture my guess anyway based on the experience I have with other people of faith. He genuinely believes in the broad strokes of his Christian faith, but, like nearly every other practitioner, has never had to conduct any searching examination of the soundness of those beliefs. If religious indoctrination in a protestant faith is as breezy and intellectually vapid as it is in catholic church, then there’s really no information beyond fairy tale telling passing from one generation to another. When this gobbledygook is presented to a child, they don’t know to question any of it. By the time a person obtains enough maturity and life experience to begin doubting what their parents tell them, they’re already an adherent to this world of ridiculous ideas.
Why should Perry be any different? He’s simply emotionally committed to a ridiculous idea spoon fed to him as a child.
this dude is right on it. and the fact that the delusionoids he describes are multiplying rather than going away, is one of those things that keeps me up at night.
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ReplyDeleteAh, yes, the bible. When I was in 4th grade, I won a bible in Sunday school and after a few months I decided to read it from start to finish so I could understand faith better. Well that old testament, wow. Pretty grim, disturbing reading as you well know, especially for a child. The murder, rape, misogyny, homophobia and incest and...I didn't even have the vocabulary to put a name to all of these concepts but the concepts came through loud and clear even so and I knew they were all deep levels of wrong, yet this was what good Christian folk did in the bible…the disconnect really fucked with my head actually. And all the while I was reading this, my parents and their friends praised me constantly for reading it. At first I thought they were praising me with a full understanding of how disturbing the reading really was and that messed with my head even more. Then it finally clicked that they had no clue, that they had only skimmed the parts that make for uplifting sermons and believed what people told them about the rest, as most of the faithful of any religion do, which was a whole new level of head trip. Ultimately it was a good thing. I came away from the experience with a healthy skepticism, a need to read and study and think for myself, and a lot of deep thoughts about bad things done in the name of “good” but I was awfully young to have been wrestling with it at the time.
ReplyDeleteAs for candidates or anyone else who believes this kind of stuff literally and unquestioningly, they scare the hell out of me.
anonymous, yes. please, SHARE AWAY!!!
ReplyDeleteand blithescribe, i agree, 4th grade is an awful young age to come to grips with reality, but good for you! you had a good 7 year head start on me because i didn't wise up til i was 16 or 17 years old. maybe i'll share the story sometime soon about how i first realized it was all a crock of shit.
to be continued...