Quote Originally Posted by GiGi View Post
Did I blame the church, or anyone else for evil? The fact is 'evil' is just another religious term I try to avoid. I stated, as simply as possible, that the church should clean its own house. Beyond that, I've not criticized the church much at all.
It is supers***ion that I find most bewildering.
To think, in the 21st century, there are still a very large number of people who believe that an unknowable deity, that reads minds and intentions, waits in some other dimension of reality to judge every individual human being that has ever lived, or will ever be born, is just absurd.
Fine by me. I have no problem being Christ's fool. I think Blaise Pascal's wager in his letters (Pensees) is the most pragmatic solution. You think something supers***utious makes it unworthy for consideration, but your a finite mind like the rest of us and I see no place to put your judgement above anyone elses. With the exception that there does seem to be a consistent judgement by a collective body with the same experiences with the divine, so much so that they were killed for their convictions at the hands of the pagan Roman empire. Most people would just buckle in fear of the threat of death and recant their supers***ion in favor of the pagan authority's view. Really, I do not see much good of your position to denounce religion, when it produces people like St. Theresa to help the poor in Calcutta, or missionaries that in face of certain death attempt to help others that the governments would not lift a finger. It is a matter of developing character.