metao (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} metao) wrote,@ 2009-01-21 17:48:00 |
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Wherein I Piss Off Everybody, Ever
Knock knock!
Who's there?
I probably offended a bunch of people by joining a very provocatively titled Facebook critical thinking group, so I figured, why not take advantage of this lull in public approval and and show off these hilarious loljesus?
And now, a quick note on how I really feel about belief systems. Please note: if you are already pissed off, this might piss you off more!
You can believe in flying spaghetti monsters or fluffy pink dragons if you like. I don't care, really. It's cool. I make fun of religion, not faith, and there is a big difference.
The difference is that faith isn't crazy. Faith is great. Faith says "I don't know for sure, but I have this gut feeling...". Gut feelings are awesome because if you are wrong, who cares? Not me! Sometimes I have a gut feeling that a sporting team you like is going to beat some other sporting team, and I am right! AWESOME! GO TEAM! Sometimes I have a gut feeling that I forgot something when I left the house, and I rush back to check and I didn't. Silly gut, you were wrong again, LOL!
So faith is cool, but religion isn't. Why? Because religion is like an amplifier for faith. Religion takes a whole bunch of perfectly sane people with similar gut feelings, and somehow evolves leaders and next think you know those gut feelings are FACTS. This makes no sense to me. Facts are things that you know to be true. The only way a gut feeling should become a fact is by the discovery of evidence and in the absence of counter-evidence. Equally importantly, a gut feeling should die if it is disproven. Religion, in giving structure to gut feelings, makes it very difficult to say "silly gut, LOL".
My gut feeling is that religion is a natural result of faith, and its inevitable corruption a result of human management. And so, just as we have to overcome other natural urges - such as the urge to kill resulting from anger - I think we need to overcome the urge of faith, and avoid structuring our ideas until we can prove them true. But I don't know for sure. Its only a feeling.
And for the record, I don't disbelieve in God. He might be there; nothing tells me he isn't. But my gut feeling is that he isn't, or if he is, he doesn't care about us, which is the same thing. And anyway, I prefer the Greek and Norse gods. How cool were they? Thor totally kicked some ass, man. That guy wouldn't take any shit.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
I probably offended a bunch of people by joining a very provocatively titled Facebook critical thinking group, so I figured, why not take advantage of this lull in public approval and and show off these hilarious loljesus?
And now, a quick note on how I really feel about belief systems. Please note: if you are already pissed off, this might piss you off more!
You can believe in flying spaghetti monsters or fluffy pink dragons if you like. I don't care, really. It's cool. I make fun of religion, not faith, and there is a big difference.
The difference is that faith isn't crazy. Faith is great. Faith says "I don't know for sure, but I have this gut feeling...". Gut feelings are awesome because if you are wrong, who cares? Not me! Sometimes I have a gut feeling that a sporting team you like is going to beat some other sporting team, and I am right! AWESOME! GO TEAM! Sometimes I have a gut feeling that I forgot something when I left the house, and I rush back to check and I didn't. Silly gut, you were wrong again, LOL!
So faith is cool, but religion isn't. Why? Because religion is like an amplifier for faith. Religion takes a whole bunch of perfectly sane people with similar gut feelings, and somehow evolves leaders and next think you know those gut feelings are FACTS. This makes no sense to me. Facts are things that you know to be true. The only way a gut feeling should become a fact is by the discovery of evidence and in the absence of counter-evidence. Equally importantly, a gut feeling should die if it is disproven. Religion, in giving structure to gut feelings, makes it very difficult to say "silly gut, LOL".
My gut feeling is that religion is a natural result of faith, and its inevitable corruption a result of human management. And so, just as we have to overcome other natural urges - such as the urge to kill resulting from anger - I think we need to overcome the urge of faith, and avoid structuring our ideas until we can prove them true. But I don't know for sure. Its only a feeling.
And for the record, I don't disbelieve in God. He might be there; nothing tells me he isn't. But my gut feeling is that he isn't, or if he is, he doesn't care about us, which is the same thing. And anyway, I prefer the Greek and Norse gods. How cool were they? Thor totally kicked some ass, man. That guy wouldn't take any shit.
