Thoughts for the day
Sep. 23rd, 2011 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltd"Woman is a mystery. If God wanted a helper for man, he should have made another man for strength. If he wanted a friend, he should have made a man for comfort." --Augustine or maybe Aquinas.
This is the fundamental tenet of the Neo-Augustinian Catholic sect in my cyberverse. Men are made for men. Women were made by the devil and a good man shuns them.
And a very good one:
"Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority." —Amanda Marcotte
(emphasis mine)
Now I do know a few people who are sociopaths and control it with religion. I just think the assumption that everyone is a sociopath might be a bit much.
This is the fundamental tenet of the Neo-Augustinian Catholic sect in my cyberverse. Men are made for men. Women were made by the devil and a good man shuns them.
And a very good one:
"Atheists are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it, especially a religion that backs up the orders with threats of hell. Believers, listen to me carefully when I say this: When you use this argument, you terrify atheists. We hear you saying that the only thing standing between you and Ted Bundy is a flimsy belief in a supernatural being made up by pre-literate people trying to figure out where the rain came from. This is not very reassuring if you’re trying to argue from a position of moral superiority." —Amanda Marcotte
(emphasis mine)
Now I do know a few people who are sociopaths and control it with religion. I just think the assumption that everyone is a sociopath might be a bit much.
