Nothing is more potentially disturbing than a Soviet person who’d spent a significant chunk of his or her life studying “Scientific Atheism” but then suddenly found religion.
“I’ve been listening to this series of lectures,” my aunt tells me, “where a scholar proves scientifically that Orthodox Christianity is vastly superior to all other religions.”
“Aunt, the only thing that might somewhat redeem this statement is if you tell me that the scholar in question is an atheist,” I respond.
“No, he’s an Orthodox Christian,” she says earnestly.
“Isn’t that a little suspect?”
“Oh no, he uses a scientific method,” my aunt explains. “For instance, everybody thinks that Buddhists are so nice, but did you know that they engage in human sacrifices?”
After this statement, all I can do is withdraw myself from the conversation.
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My but-tocks are superior to all religions.
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Oddly, now I imagine you as Powdered Toast Man from Ren & Stimpy …
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They really are. They are quite real.
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Actually Christianity is based on sado-masochistic dynamics, where women (femininity) are mistakenly viewed as an endless resource, to be used up and wasted at will. In reality, that is just the same as believing you can endlessly exploit the rainforests to make whatever money you want to make. The ecosystem is not made of money and ethics are not made of prestige. Christianity is founded on the unscientific assertion to the effect that the opposite it the case. It’s contradictions have already doomed it.
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It is highly reassuring to know that as a Buddhist, while I’m not serving “gods that are so great they don’t have to exist” or their Official Opposition, I’m secretly feasting on human flesh. I would love to know who these inquisitive, inquisitional people are and how they are capable of discerning things about me that not even the NSA and GCHQ happen to know. 🙂
Consequently, I am reminded of Hilaire Belloc’s “On Food”, from his “Cautionary Verses”:
“In Italy the traveller notes
With great disgust the flesh of goats
Appearing on the table d’hôtes;
And even this the natives spoil
By frying it in rancid oil.”
It now bears a patina of age that makes it even more hilarious. 🙂
http://archive.org/stream/hilairebellocsc00bell/hilairebellocsc00bell_djvu.txt
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Of course, science also practices human sacrifice. Clinical trials in which drugs or treatment protocols are evaluated by how many people die with or without them is the most common incarnation of the practice nowadays.
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Good point. 🙂
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I always find it hilarious when a religion uses any “science” to prove some facet of their religion, especially with fundamentalist strains. They’re not going to use the result of the scientific method if they’re proven wrong, so why bother?
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It’s so funny to hear what atheists say. 🙂 They are as naïve as little kids, God bless both . 🙂
It’s also funny to hear those who use science to ‘support’ religion. 🙂 Why not use religion to support science? 🙂
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