Combined with the video, talk about personal feelings about religion

Kay 2022-03-26 09:01:08

There are many good friends who believe in Christianity. They firmly believe in the God they believe in. They are sincere, friendly, and thoughtful, but from a rational observer like me, all of their thinking is here. Under the premise of faith, they seldom ask questions that seem absurd to modern people (resurrection and ascension, talking to snakes, creating all things in heaven and earth in 6 days, feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish, etc.). When it comes to these questions, they can't argue, they just believe, and that's enough, just like the fat boy in the video recording left the scene when he heard doubts about his faith. I admire and respect their relentless beliefs, but only on a perceptual level. There are always friends who say that she hears instructions from God when she is praying. I believe this. From a psychological point of view, this is completely reasonable, but what I believe is that the instruction is actually a suggestion to my heart. But they don't think so, they think it's the voice of God. Just like taking some kind of medicine and identifying a master, there is no doubt.
Really speaking from a rational point of view, I personally think that religion is absurd within the framework of reason, there is no doubt about it. More than 2000 years ago, it is not surprising that a person believed that people can chat with animals and believe in resurrection and ascension, but today after 2000, if someone is convinced of this, it is really shocking. I don't think they believe it, but It is the willingness to believe, because this belief does not need to pay any price, and it can also get spiritual wealth, and this willingness goes beyond any rational thinking refutation. "Proving God's existence is hard, but proving God's non-existence is even harder," they often cite as an excuse or as comfort to their hearts. But a rational person would ask: would you believe a fact out of nothing that has not been proven? So what in this world do we not believe? Of course, beliefs are personal, their own. I agree with this sentence very much, and I respect other people's beliefs, because the communication with my friends is not only within the framework of beliefs, and now I rarely ask rebuttal questions about their beliefs, because beliefs are not suitable for Discuss within a rational framework. Going back to the film, I think what the director and the protagonist want to express is the devastation of religion to human beings. Religion is a kind of virtue without thinking. In the name of God, all kinds of inhumane killings are carried out. This is what the author finally wants. Critical, and the previous questions remind people of the word "doubt". Religious belief is something that does not need to be discussed rationally. The more you discuss it, the less meaningful the discussion will be. As I said before, belief is your own, and you can create your life with this belief. Brilliant and thank God, this is a personal freedom, or more precisely a psychological freedom, atheists can show respect for religious believers, and religious believers must also respect those who do not "believe" in your eyes , after all, it is not religion that is belief, but atheism and rigorous science are also beliefs. Therefore, don't have this mental and behavioral habit, that is, "believers go to heaven, unbelievers go to hell", which is an extremely humble sense of dignity, and don't always put "God will have mercy on you unbelievers" Talking about it, it's even an insult.

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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.