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RE: Touchy Subject - mattwestwick - 04-19-2011 I think we should be concerned with the transition of media replacing the role of religion. I mean at what point do people actually start worshipping Simon Cowell. RE: Touchy Subject - hollowleviathan - 04-19-2011 Humanism isn't going to be the end of the world. Atheism isn't the coming golden age, either. I strongly believe people are just fundamentally evil, and the trappings they wrap that in don't change anything. RE: Touchy Subject - Tanshaydar - 04-19-2011 Lord of the Flies. RE: Touchy Subject - Bek - 04-20-2011 (04-19-2011, 03:52 PM)mattwestwick Wrote: I think we should be concerned with the transition of media replacing the role of religion. heh.. the game Deus Ex works this idea into it's plot, and suggests that the next thing to be worshipped will be an artificial intelligence system that controls everything (cameras, all information etc). In short they invent their god. Code: JC Denton: "I don't see anything amusing about spying on people." RE: Touchy Subject - Sexbad - 04-23-2011 (04-19-2011, 08:57 PM)hollowleviathan Wrote: I strongly believe people are just fundamentally evil, and the trappings they wrap that in don't change anything. I'd never try to hide the fact that sometimes I am a bastard (perhaps in a job interview), and everyone else is too. The problem that I have with this idea is that many religions have incredibly arbitrary definitions of evil. I understand what any Abrahamic book could have against killing or stealing, but I'm confused by why so many religions wish to make us repress natural sexual desires, not eat item(s) X on day(s) Y, or wear certain hats. I'm confused about what it would do to harm an all-powerful being's ego or make you any less of a person. Also, I don't really like the idea of an infinite peace or suffering based on a finite existence, especially in Christianity, one of whose main selling points is the idea of forgiveness (you can ask for a little bit of love right on your dying bed, but after that, you stick with what you get?). RE: Touchy Subject - DominusVita - 04-23-2011 "The problem that I have with this idea is that many religions have incredibly arbitrary definitions of evil." You do have to take in mind the Zeitgeist of when these religious texts were created. That's a very great quote from Deus Ex, by the way. It speaks quite a great deal on human nature. RE: Touchy Subject - hollowleviathan - 04-23-2011 (04-23-2011, 11:16 AM)Lee Wrote: I understand what any Abrahamic book could have against killing or stealing, but I'm confused by why so many religions wish to make us repress natural sexual desires, not eat item(s) X on day(s) Y, or wear certain hats. Those aren't evil, they're ways in which the faithful can honor and praise their creator, whom they love for loving and caring for them. People of those religions may be base or simple people who only perform the ceremony out of rote, or have confused tradition with law, but abstaining from those things is not necessarily evil. RE: Touchy Subject - Sexbad - 04-23-2011 (04-23-2011, 07:42 PM)hollowleviathan Wrote:(04-23-2011, 11:16 AM)Lee Wrote: I understand what any Abrahamic book could have against killing or stealing, but I'm confused by why so many religions wish to make us repress natural sexual desires, not eat item(s) X on day(s) Y, or wear certain hats. The term "abomination" must mean something different than I had thought it did, then. RE: Touchy Subject - hollowleviathan - 04-24-2011 (04-23-2011, 09:13 PM)Lee Wrote: The term "abomination" must mean something different than I had thought it did, then. That part is people injecting hate and evil into their religious tradition, and is man-made. |