religion thing

Precious 2022-03-23 09:02:24

Let's talk about the film itself. It's not really a rigorous documentary, it can only be said that it's a filmmaker holding a camera to record what people say~~ and this student Bill is really annoying sometimes, always interrupting others' speech, and when others are serious He laughed inexplicably when he answered his question in a sly way~~~ Although it was to emphasize the absurdity of those people's answers, it still felt uncomfortable to watch, so impolite~~~ Anyway, this movie gives the feeling It is still mostly satire and ridicule, and there are too few rigorous discussions. However, some places are still quite interesting and impactful. For example, when listing the things that cannot be done on the Sabbath, a "death" pops up every time it is said. It is inevitable that people will feel that these regulations are really ridiculous.
Then tell me what I think about religion. Let's talk about evolution first. A friend told me a while ago that he had joined the Christian church, and he was seriously discussing the theory of evolution with me. He learned from him that the theory of evolution is relatively accurate for animal research, and there are various real evidences such as fossils to prove it. However, for humans, fossils of very important evolutionary stages cannot always be found. That is to say, although the theory of evolution is applicable to animals, there is no fossil to prove that humans also evolved. Therefore, although God may not have really created all things, it is possible that human beings were really created by God.
On this, I am 95% supportive of evolution. Regarding the problem of missing fossils, I think it is because the evolution of human upright walking was completed in the sea. Maybe for some reason some monkeys were driven to live in the sea, so they became like penguins, they can swim in the sea and walk upright on the shore, but we walk better than penguins. This may also be the origin of the legend of the mermaid (although many people say that the mermaid is actually a dugong).
As for the other five percent, there is still some room for God to create man. Because human beings are so much higher than other animals in intelligence... I always feel that if everyone really evolved, how can the gap be so big. What's more, there are no fossils to prove the evolutionary history of human beings.
Then say whether God exists or not~~ I believe that there must be a God who rules everything in the world, but it may not be the God that everyone talks about~~ Maybe even Buddha, Allah, and Jesus are actually talking about the same God, but Everyone interprets it differently. There may also be many gods who perform their own duties, but there must be power beyond us, which I believe.

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  • Bill Maher: [Extra] What about when innocent people get killed during a "defensive action"?

    Michael Bray: I'm for that. Yeah. It's collateral damage.

    Bill Maher: But it's acceptable?

    Michael Bray: We've got to consider what the real issue is here and what the cost is and the risk.

  • Bill Maher: [Extra] This is the Anne Frank house, when you see it you really understand how true that phrase "The banality of evil" really is. One of the common arguments in defence of religion is that Hitler wasn't religious and neither was Stalin or Mao and they were bad so religion is good. But like religion itself it's an argument that really depends a lot on not thinking too deeply. For one Hitler himself didn't eliminate anyone personally he had a lot of footsoldiers most of whom were good Christians and they pushed people into the ovens. Religion has done a bad job of stepping up and preventing violence-prone bullies from doing their thing. If anything it usually justifies acts of madness. And 20th Century Fascism and Communism while not strictly religions as we've come to think of religion, really were religions. They were state religions. Hitler was seen as infallable and Godlike. Hirohito was absolutely a God on Earth to the Japanese people. We shouldn't get too hung up on the word religion. The bottom line is whether people think and act rationally or not and whenever they organise their lives around something that could best be described as groundlessness bad things happen. Even if the central story seems harmless like there's a God who loves you so much that he had his only Son whacked so that you could keep on sinning. Still, doesn't matter, once reality has left the building, once it's up there in the ether then anything can be extrapolated or tacked on by Preachers and Priesthoods and delusionals and power-hungry pricks. It's not that big a step from "your God is the only God and he loves you very much" to "you really should get out there and start killing for him" Whenever people believe in something utterly groundless because they were told it by a charismatic preacher and Hitler was nothing if not that, all bets are off. Nazism was a religion, a religion based on the insane fiction that Jews were subhuman vermin who did not deserve to live, but people and people not from a primitive society believed it because A they liked the preacher, B the other sheep around them were buying into it even though it was crazy and C it was inextricably tied to their view of a glorious Valhalla-like future. A, B, C. Religion.