Thoughts for the day

[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.

Comments

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Problem for believers is this: Morality is hard-wired. We evolved to be generous, altruistic, social. And for the most part, we are. But when hard times descend- and stay around, religions get invented or imposed that enforce these baked-in instincts.

I don't need the threat of heaven or hell to be a decent human being. I don't need to be born again, either. I got it right the first time.

I sometimes think that the genetic material missing in the male 'y' chromosone is what makes them say - and believe- the idiotic blather quoted above.