Reply #37: worship is disrespect [View All]

[Ignoramus]

Okay, so you vow ignorance. What am I to do when you come to kill my friends and family? I will defend myself as best as I can.

Meanwhile, I reach out to you to find a common ground. Without being able to use analogy and something like reason, we are lost. It's just my assertion vs. your assertion.

There's something there that I suspect from your words. Something like an interest in awareness of a way that things are, rather than just what's on your dinner plate. So, I feel like there should be some way to appeal to that.

You ask "what's the use of a God who does not defy logic other than to further dumb-down the ideal"? I'm just asking you to allow that you might not know what the ideal is. If you can do that, you will have escaped from your insanity, at least in that area.

You don't have to assert that God must match your logic, or else he doesn't exist, rather I suggest that you allow that your logic and belief might not be adequate to tell you that God exists.

The same interest that looks to me like part of your religious faith can go to seek awareness of nature, or whatever, you can even call it God if you like, without it having to be Mr. God. But, if you don't allow yourself to doubt and have questions, than you don't have respect for your ideal. You are inventing God in your own image.

Respect and reverence come from questioning and suspending your assumptions, not worshiping the image you created or accepted on faith.