and still about the "sacred cows"
as i said before, it's irrelevant to me whether god exists or not. he does not interfere in my life, he doesn't put food on my table, he doesn't make me feel better when i'm sad, he doesn't send me some hot red-headed and green-eyed girl for me to get laid with. if he doesn exist, then he's taken some long-term holidays. which makes perfect sense, considering that we have free will.
and free will is the key here. we are free to believe or not. to pray or not. to go to the church or not. to follow god's laws or not. we are free to chose what to eat, what to wear (well, sort of), who to fuck (whishful thinking). we can chose whether we want to have children or not. given all this, why would an intelligent god (he has to be intelligent if he is the creator, right) demand from us a blind faith?
regarding christian values, well, nothing to say. good ones. tolerance, respect, yada yada. i'm all for that. and yet i'm not tolerant and respectful because i fear to burn in hell or because i want the heaven's gates wide open for me when i die. that's bullshit. i follow christian values not because of their origins, but because of what they mean. they are correct. as guidelines, they are nice for our daily lives with the ones around us (the portuguese writer eça de queiroz explains it very well in the novel os maias).
that said, someone with at least a half of the brain working cannot accept the existance of "sacred cows", i.e., subjects that cannot be the target of criticism and jokes. especially nowadays, when fanaticism about religion is getting common - and dangerous. if christian believers forget that, and if they start overreacting everytime someone jokes about their religion, that would make them nothing but fundamentalists. that would be like walking backwards. how can someone call for tolerance when one is not tolerant?
and free will is the key here. we are free to believe or not. to pray or not. to go to the church or not. to follow god's laws or not. we are free to chose what to eat, what to wear (well, sort of), who to fuck (whishful thinking). we can chose whether we want to have children or not. given all this, why would an intelligent god (he has to be intelligent if he is the creator, right) demand from us a blind faith?
regarding christian values, well, nothing to say. good ones. tolerance, respect, yada yada. i'm all for that. and yet i'm not tolerant and respectful because i fear to burn in hell or because i want the heaven's gates wide open for me when i die. that's bullshit. i follow christian values not because of their origins, but because of what they mean. they are correct. as guidelines, they are nice for our daily lives with the ones around us (the portuguese writer eça de queiroz explains it very well in the novel os maias).
that said, someone with at least a half of the brain working cannot accept the existance of "sacred cows", i.e., subjects that cannot be the target of criticism and jokes. especially nowadays, when fanaticism about religion is getting common - and dangerous. if christian believers forget that, and if they start overreacting everytime someone jokes about their religion, that would make them nothing but fundamentalists. that would be like walking backwards. how can someone call for tolerance when one is not tolerant?
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