D.o.S. wrote:Just because something's heavy doesn't make it doom.
Exactly the point I'm trying to make.
(because I start to feel bad about this stuff, and because I am a sensitive, sleep-deprived little girl, let me say that I enjoy all of you, and that debating the finer points of bullshit is a pleasure. Remove subtext of snark from my posts with your brains.)
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
hbombgraphics wrote:
This thread fascinates me because I have seen church in general bring out the absolute worst in some people and the absolute best in others, it's kinda crazy.
Like most any mind-altering, psychotropic substance
Most people I see in Catholic churches I already know from around town as some of the most vile people. Mormons are fucking horrifically nice though, like bad things can never happen to them nice.
Invisible Man wrote:
Basically kinda bored with the whole knee-jerk 'Christianity is evil' play. It's annoying and disingenuous. Whatever edge it had has been dulled in infinite weed-shrouded dorm room discussions.
Also this. You have my sympathy, given your chosen profession and work environment. So many "woke" fundie kids who struggle to get out of bed and face the harsh reality of a hard life, adopt activism to combat disenfranchisement while looking to blame institutions for their own personal shortcomings, misfortune etc.
D.o.S. wrote:Just because something's heavy doesn't make it doom.
Exactly the point I'm trying to make.
(because I start to feel bad about this stuff, and because I am a sensitive, sleep-deprived little girl, let me say that I enjoy all of you, and that debating the finer points of bullshit is a pleasure. Remove subtext of snark from my posts with your brains.)
No snark inferred dude. Just underlining. Gear doesn't make music, obviously -- although it does make things really expensive when folks with no imagination fail to grasp that, which is how you wind up with the signifiers you're referencing.
D.o.S. wrote:Sure, brands, it's a system of social control that has been overstepped by secular laws and the like (and birth control/other advancements in that vein. Hard to keep the womenfolk in line when they can have sex with whomever they want without winding up with children -- see the contention around abortion). I don't think there's any debating that?
Maybe I like the obvious targets, but I was more thinking that the spiritual and the political bits of religion is lumped together by most of the new atheist movement
I'd agree with that, I guess. I just don't see it as a bad thing (militant atheists are annoying, though).