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Just watched a short bit of a Sunday-morning church show on TV.
Christianity seems so foreign to me. Religion is so foreign. People are so foreign. How can people believe those things? How can I be on the same planet with people like that? What the heck is this WEIRD universe I am living in?
So the preacher is preaching about how God will let bad things happen to our nation because of the "decline in morality" that's been going on here. About how he will allow other nations to attack and conquer us, just like he allowed the Babylonians to conquer the Israelites. In other words, it's not just a matter of believing in your religion and living your life as you feel you should live it, while letting other people believe in what they believe and live life as they feel they should live it. No, the fact that other people aren't believing in the things you do, and acting according to your own religion's standards of morality, means bad things are going to happen to *you*. Therefore you have to change *them*, in order to save yourself. And therefore it makes perfect sense to try to pass laws based on your religion, and to treat other religions as inferior to yours. Why? Because a book says so! Because a preacher says so! Because there's this big powerful male-gendered godly being who wants us billions of puny little humans to follow the oh-so-important ridiculous instructions put down in a book he wrote and bestowed upon us a couple thousand years ago!
And the preacher says the Islam is bad because Moslems want to kill people who don't believe in their religion, while Christians are so much better than them because Christians want to convert people instead of killing them. Ahem. Yes, it's that simple. They are bad and we are good. Of course. There haven't ever been any Christians who have wanted to kill non-believers and/or impose Christianity upon others. And passing laws based on Christianity isn't *imposing* Christianity upon others. Of course not. After all, you are only doing it for their own good... you're saving them from God's deadly wrath! As well as saving yourselves from God's wrath that you let them coexist with you.
Either way, fanatical Islam and fanatical Christianity, it is the same thought process! Gah, and no, it's not that people in other countries could possibly be angry at Americans because of the inconsiderate things Americans do to people in other countries, no, that couldn't be the case, because Americans are so good. They're only angry at us because we don't follow their religion. Of course that would make sense to someone who feels the same way about other people and their own religion.
Of course, it is probably true. If people here are so weird and believe in such things, it stands to reason that people in other countries are just as weird and gullible. And so yes, there are a lot of non-Christians out there who probably want to do us harm merely because our religions are different than theirs, and because we engage in activities that they think their God opposes.
Why am I living this weird strange incomprehensible life?
Christianity seems so foreign to me. Religion is so foreign. People are so foreign. How can people believe those things? How can I be on the same planet with people like that? What the heck is this WEIRD universe I am living in?
So the preacher is preaching about how God will let bad things happen to our nation because of the "decline in morality" that's been going on here. About how he will allow other nations to attack and conquer us, just like he allowed the Babylonians to conquer the Israelites. In other words, it's not just a matter of believing in your religion and living your life as you feel you should live it, while letting other people believe in what they believe and live life as they feel they should live it. No, the fact that other people aren't believing in the things you do, and acting according to your own religion's standards of morality, means bad things are going to happen to *you*. Therefore you have to change *them*, in order to save yourself. And therefore it makes perfect sense to try to pass laws based on your religion, and to treat other religions as inferior to yours. Why? Because a book says so! Because a preacher says so! Because there's this big powerful male-gendered godly being who wants us billions of puny little humans to follow the oh-so-important ridiculous instructions put down in a book he wrote and bestowed upon us a couple thousand years ago!
And the preacher says the Islam is bad because Moslems want to kill people who don't believe in their religion, while Christians are so much better than them because Christians want to convert people instead of killing them. Ahem. Yes, it's that simple. They are bad and we are good. Of course. There haven't ever been any Christians who have wanted to kill non-believers and/or impose Christianity upon others. And passing laws based on Christianity isn't *imposing* Christianity upon others. Of course not. After all, you are only doing it for their own good... you're saving them from God's deadly wrath! As well as saving yourselves from God's wrath that you let them coexist with you.
Either way, fanatical Islam and fanatical Christianity, it is the same thought process! Gah, and no, it's not that people in other countries could possibly be angry at Americans because of the inconsiderate things Americans do to people in other countries, no, that couldn't be the case, because Americans are so good. They're only angry at us because we don't follow their religion. Of course that would make sense to someone who feels the same way about other people and their own religion.
Of course, it is probably true. If people here are so weird and believe in such things, it stands to reason that people in other countries are just as weird and gullible. And so yes, there are a lot of non-Christians out there who probably want to do us harm merely because our religions are different than theirs, and because we engage in activities that they think their God opposes.
Why am I living this weird strange incomprehensible life?