Einstein On Religion
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- gramme0
Oh, we're all knocking on doors around here. Every single one of us espousing ideas in this thread, Christian or non-. Let's not kid ourselves.
miko, I believe the best kind of love can only be imparted from a supernatural source. Anything else pales in comparison. Again, the pursuit of excellence here. I believe a certain amount of morality is embedded in us all, because we are intrinsically moral beings whether we believe it or not.
If all I believe in is the Golden Rule ("I'll treat you the way I hope to be treated"), then I'm really just scratching my own back. Karma and all that. It's really just personal well-being insurance, looking out for oneself. Ultimate selfishness. it doesn't work for people in the long run. I can only be made free from the chains of my own selfishness by receiving divine intervention.
- What this says to me is that you don't believe people can socially evolve enough to do good for the sake of doing good, that they have to have the Big G-man looking over their shoulderlocustsloth
- good, that they need the Big G-man looking over their shoulderlocustsloth
- Exactly. Social evolution is horse shit and implies a misunderstandng of human nature.gramme
- so then religion is the resignation to the possibility that we can modify human nature...locustsloth
- ...with that wonderful thing called "free will". Check it out, Rush wrote a song about itlocustsloth