Pheonix32890 wrote:At this point in time, I am very comfortable with my beliefs, thank you, and really have no need to defend them.......................................except when others attempt to regulate MY life, and the lives of other people, based on nothing but THEIR religious beliefs.
Well good luck finding some place where you can set up your own anarchy, because barring that you're always going to be facing "others attempting to regulate [your] life, and the lives of other people" based upon their religious beliefs (I use the adjective "religious" lightly, however-- rather than referring to some standard set of rules adopted by an organization, to mean as a particular type of worldview).
That's called government-- someone is in power (whether by election, or by force, or by default,
ad infinitum), and it is upon their moral beliefs that a structure for a model moral society is formed. Government mirroring the morality of its makers, in other words.
Who is to judge what beliefs are right and wrong? You? Based upon...what? Your own beliefs? And how are those right? Proven through logic? What is logic? You can't even objectively prove the existence of logic because it requires logic to do so.
Here lies an infinitely cyclic system, one which leaves Machiavellians to sneak into power and use it to their own ends (whether they view it as "righteous" or not by their own beliefs) and which leaves the majority of the most thoughtful (and wisest) folk to spend their time in Greenwich Village coffee houses discussing everthing and nothing pertaining to truth and life.
Only through those discussions (whether your seventeen or in college is quite irrelevent) may we come close to anything resembling moral truth-- and, in turn, come close to a solution to this infinitely cyclic system.
This need of our "Greenwich Village coffee house"-discussions is barring, of course, a place of anarchy.
Let me know if you find it, will you?
I am now thoroughly confused. If I lash out at someone because of something, I am then accused of not behaving like a Christian. If I try hard to get along with everybody you cringe? NOTE TO SELF: Find some common ground in the middle of these two?
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