No Evolution No Way
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- TheBlueOne0
Everything I needed to know about ethics and the fickleness of gods I learned from the Samurai:
"You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. Good and bad actions are Man's Way. Retribution of good and evil is taught simply as a moral lesson."
"Though it may be said that the gods dislike impurity, if one thinks a bit, he will see that he has not been negligent in his daily worship. Thus, one's previous faithfulness has been exactly for the sake of praying for good fortune in such times as when one is barbed in blood and climbing over the dead. At such a time, if it is a god that turns back when one is defiled, then one should know clearly that praying is ineffective and should worship regardless of defilement."
"Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things. Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery ."
- Hagakure
Christianity, as practiced by American evangelicals, bores me with it's simplistic worldview. Kills the human spirit. At least the Jesuits made it interesting. Heck, wasn't it Luther who said "Sin bravely to invoke the mercy of God." Give me some christianity with some intellectual balls at least. Jesus was no lightweight in the brains department..