Hello nemesis_juggernaut! You seem like a good guy and I look forward to discussing issues with you, if I can keep up.
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
So, you want to take away people's religious freedoms? People with clout can only maintain secular ideas? That sounds a bit fascist don't you think?
No, that's a horrible idea, and I didn't intend to communicate that message.
However, I
am disappointed that mainstream America so readily accepts Christianity's wild doctrines. And I am discouraged that these wild doctrines hold such lobbying power in our secular government, to the suffering of the the rest of the people.
Of course, this doesn't give me the right to dictate what people think, but I can be disappointed.
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
Some say the same thing about evolution.
You mention people becoming indoctrinated into evolution. For me, it was exactly the opposite; I was raised a full-blood creationist. I had to be dramatically convinced into evolution. While evolution has strong evidence for it, I think that creation simply has an archaic assumption.
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
Why then are they more concerned with Judeo-Christian ideals?
Because the West is dominated by Christians, and the Western peoples probably have a greater access to the Internet. (I'm assuming on that claim.)
Also, our nation's political maneuvers are not being affected by Hindu claims. Christianity, on the other hand, is tremendously affecting our society.
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
I'm sorry you had a bad experience growing up. It always pains me to hear that, whether its wholly true, by their own design, or a slight/gross embellishment. But I've never really understood why nuns rapping kids on the knuckles translates into: There is no God.
My experience wasn't horrible, at least not physically. (Mentally may be another story; "hell" raised some tragic scenes.) Rather, my chagrin is that my church deceived me on
false claims, and discouraged any questioning of those claims.
It's not that they rapped my knuckles (metaphorically), but that they rapped them for false and bad reasons, and I believed every part of it.