Ol' Luke was a basket case . . .
On point here, though. And he didn't see the half of it.
I've always been partial to Our Mr. Clemens:
Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.
as i see it, religion, or at least competition and comparism amongst religions, creates a lot more problems than it ever solved.
neologist wrote:Yet religion survives
Lucrative enterprises have a knack for survival.
Here's some more Clemens, on that topic:
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot.
I'm finding it hard to keep up with you.
I got a million of 'em boss . . . here's Mr. Clemens responding to the topic of christian hypocricy:
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
HEHEHE! proly woodn do him much good tho, eh?
The question of the efficacy of prayer is not properly the domain of the praying sinner, no?
Took me a while to find this one, it's my favorite, and i wanted to be sure i got it right:
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
I pray for you. Do you feel it? I think not. Do you thank me? Not yet.
Shall we make Mark a saint, I say with a certain irony, in that I agree with all those Clemens sentences, and others too.
That school in Colby reminds me of my fifties' high school. Bravo to the young lady.
Machiavelli wrote:Had the religion of Christianity been preserved according to the ordinances of the Founder, the state and commonwealth of Christendom would have been far more united and happy than they are. Nor can there be a greater proof of its decadence than the fact that the nearer people are to the Roman Church, the head of their religion, the less religious are they.
Others are so much more eloquent than I.
Ah yes, a little Catholic bashing, always a good time . . .
Can religion solve the world's problems?
Only through self-immolation.
