Hello, All!
So, here I am, the Religious Antidote. Or, at least, I hope I have something of the kind in my pocket for you to flush in to your veins. If not, then perhaps I might just cause you to pause for thought a few times, which is the very least I can hope for.
I hate religion. Not just dislike, but hate. I hate religion because of the way it poisons everything man touches. The way it displaces rational thought like oil poured in to water. The way it maims and kills. The way it indoctrinates the young when they are impressionable. The way it discriminates and divides.
As Nietzsche wrote in Twilight Of The Idols, ""Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?".
I believe the answer is the latter.
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I see you are following our blog; thanks, and congratulations on your new blog. I hesitate to say more; but in fairness, i'll note that you will find some challenge on religious issues over at Covenant Zone, though the question you ask is of course key: did man create God, or vice versa? Yet why do you think we can ever answer it definitively? Alternatively, one might think about identifying just what is the essential difference between the believer and non-believer. Or, how much do we all inherit from the common origin of man, the founding event of human Creation. I believe the transition from animal to human was an event, a distinct moment of human or divine Creation. If one pursues this idea, he may find that the difference between atheist and believer is, at its finest, truly minimal and can't be split. If you want to explore such a way of thinking, some of my posts at CZ may be a start!
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