For those that think religion is the worst thing inflicted upon the human race…
I’ll put my philosophical hat on;
Credit allows people to be underpaid.
Credit allows people to act outside of the community spirit.
Credit allows the rich to rob the poor.
Credit is a love of money and is it’s own root of all evil.
Peddling credit is like peddling drugs. We see those doing the peddling get filthy rich and we think that partaking of their fare will make us like them. If we’re not members of the dodgy handshake club, and are uncut to boot, It makes us victims instead.
Taking out credit is like being a junkie. You just couldn’t go without, You had to do what everyone else was doing, no one believes in austerity and living within one’s means.
Attacking those in the credit industry invites censure, as it is automatically assumed that you must be an anti-semite, socialist, or anti-establishment.
If you now substitute “Religion” for the word “Credit” above, then the exact opposite applies right down the chain…
Religion insists that people are paid a fair wage, and are never ripped off. Hard work is rewarded. No exploitation.
Religion IS the community spirit.
Religion allows the poor to rob the rich, although unbelievers on the outside will see “socialism” where religion is at large instead.
Demonstrating religion is like denying drugs. We avoid those that are filthy rich, and have no intention of partaking of their fare, thus we will not be victims to it.
Taking part in organised religion without being religious is like being a junkie. How many atheists are brave enough to never go to a wedding, never take Christmas off, or asked to be buried in a landfill site, because a corpse is in their mind a “switched off piece of rubbish like a discarded computer”?
Most people who “say” they are atheist are in fact agnostic. They’re afraid people will extract the urine if they’re seen to be in any way different to others in their peer group.
If a recruiting boss said “I’m paying Double to anyone religious in my workforce, and triple for Christians” then my guess is the local church will be packed the following week with wannabes tendering their resumes!
Attacking the religious tends to make one look like an atheist rather than a member of another religion, which tends to be the real cause of friction. Defending religion tends to make one look like an evangelist or member of an organised religion which makes one look like some nutter like David Ike. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Always look at the relative rather than the stereotype.
Wishing death upon someone aged 20 is a great thing if you are the rest of the world and we’re talking about Adolf Hitler.
The blindly religious would argue that wishing death upon someone is wrong, even if it saves a million lives. The sensible religious knows better. The blindly atheistic would argue that religion is to blame for all the worlds ills, but since they’re on the outside, and are not even looking in, they might as well be playing blind man’s buff on the M6!
History tends to remember anti-semites as the evil ones. A Christian and an Atheist Historian might both point out that Christ was both born a semite and put to death by their will - for being anti-establishment!
People’s responses to Immigrant’s post suggest I’m not far wrong here…
