Originally posted by Ripsnort
Life must suck carrying that much baggage Weazel.
Look at the worlds religions..... founded upon some magic.... founded upon some apparition or voice from the clouds....or a burning bush.
Founded upon the intervention of the supernatural in one guise or another.....miracles, revelations, a mortal man born of "God".... by a virgin.....who ultimately rises from the dead.
Look at the effect of the worlds religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims.
Look at what they have done to human history.
Look at the wars fought on account of them....look at the persecutions.....the massacres.
Look at the pure enslavement of reason.....look at the price of faith and zeal.
I'm hard put to determine what is more evil, religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant simple abstract solution.
Both have bathed earth in suffering, both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species.
It is the irrational....it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material. Baggage?
Seems to me your the one carrying about 2000 years of it.