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on Monday August 11 2014, @05:25AM
from the back-to-wasting-time-on-futile-things-in-meatspace dept.
from the back-to-wasting-time-on-futile-things-in-meatspace dept.
Pope Francis thinks you are spending too much time chatting online, using your smartphone and watching TV, among other things. He did not Tweet the message, but rather delivered it in person to 50,000 German Altar Servers who dropped by for a visit.
Earlier this year, the pope said the internet was a "Gift From God", while warning against isolation caused by too little face time with real people.
Meanwhile, the British government is warning that too much time online is causing mental illness in children "Loneliness, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and heightened aggression are some of the possible issues faced by children who may overuse the Internet."
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(Score: 1) by Bot on Monday August 11 2014, @07:23AM
So you had to wait for the internet... what about Matthew 23:3? or the devil offering Jesus all the kingdoms in mt 4:8-9, which strongly implies the are under his control?
Believe what you like, but if you think bad people won't get advantage of respectable systems, and you keep the religion itself liable when their books warn you explicitly that wolves come in sheep's clothes Mt 7:15, then you're being a bit too simplistic.
If you don't believe, then you should consider those scriptures in Matthew as a too clever work of reverse psychology, which risks backfiring badly.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Lagg on Monday August 11 2014, @08:17AM
Here's the thing, when you're at that level of willful ignorance like I was the mind tends to rationalize the plethora of inconsistencies in the bible. That's what brainwashing does, it deludes people and trains them to rationalize every flaw with an excuse that basically boils down to "god wrote it this way for a reason" and killing any argument in much the same way. They even rationalize the many revisions and translations as god basically doing version control or some nonsense like that. I didn't have to wait until the internet but it really could have helped. I figured out how much of a scam the entire thing is by noticing the contradictions and inconsistencies on my own but it was a slow process.
and I'm not holding the religion itself liable, I'm holding the religion and the people practicing it liable because they are. I hope you're not implying that any kind of religion is "respectable" either because they're all horrific and disgusting methods of control and means to manipulate people into being tools for the hierarchy leading it. Christians, catholics, scientoligists, they're all the same trash from the pile. Religion has always been about oppression, killing and money. Pope Prick up there yet again reinforces that fact too. His transparent attempts at playing the nice guy is clearly not working so he's moving to the old stand by of "THINK OF TEH CHILDREN" to stop them from learning and exploring what this universe has to offer. Because as the good book says the fruit of knowledge is evil, but knowledge that makes you fear that sadistic fuck in the sky is okay.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 11 2014, @05:17PM
Something as personal as belief can be tied to some arbitrary reasons, but the personal feeling about it is more important, as blindly following someone else's orders is not a merit anyway. "I listened and I don't believe" is sufficient, because "I listened".
The Books are contradictory when seen as a collection of orthogonally important, persistent, truths? oh, but that was not feasible in the first place, because the guy Jesus says "but I tell you", MT 5,43.
Square peg, meet round hole.
I also do not see how a thing that contains symbols, originates partially from oral tradition (which means it contained other expedients to facilitate its learning), and has been object of revisions, has to be taken as an instruction manual instead of a chronicle. If you require it to be an instruction manual you should not be asking yourself "why does it have inconsistencies", but instead "why the hypothetical God left its redaction to man".
The instruction part is in the commandments, and in the sermon of the mount you have the way to improve on them. Why improve? It's not the law that changes, it's those on whom the law is directed that have changed.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 11 2014, @08:32PM
I would consider myself a Christian, and while I don't buy into the Bible as the 'infallible word of God' (it was, after all, written by people), but I consider Christ as an example, not because he is God, but because he was genuinely good to people.
When asked, what the greatest commandment was, Christ (reportedly) replied, "Love God with all your being, and the second one is just like it, love your neighbor as yourself." Which I take to mean that the way to show love for God IS to love your neighbor. This way of living, putting the needs of others, including your enemies, on equal footing as your own doesn't require belief in Christ as God, nor does it require a literal belief in the Bible. It merely requires one to understand that all people deserve respect and love.
And for the record, I was troubled to hear how happy many people were to hear of the death of Osama Bin Laden, not because I felt he was a great guy or anything, but because he was a fellow human.