Originally posted by king9072
You do realize that if you came across a group of people who had never experienced the status quo, who had no perception of religion or it's stories.
That both would be taken just as jokingly.
3 little pigs is just as ridiculous as Noah building an arc, then running around gathering millions of species to pack on a boat. While john the
carpenter is bumping out cages and tanks at a rate of 100,000 a second.
Give me a break, bible is completely ridiculous. Anyone over 5 that hasn't been brainwashed by parents can see this. The rest of the believers are
just imbred idiots.
"Imbred" idiots?
Ad hominem garbage aside (please, give ME a break), I was referring to the video author's apparent total dismissal of faith and spiritual philosophy
in general.
The Noah's ark story may not be able to be taken by a rational person as read (it's a bit of a stretch!), but it may be symbolic, or stylised poetry
(as a lot of the Old Testament is, in the original Aramaic text).
In any case, I was referring to the broader concept of humankind reaching out with their minds to the perceived creator and trying to make sense of
the world around them. This is a huge part of humankind's development over the millenia, and is not as easily dismissed as the video author would
like us to believe.
The creator of the video rants about measurable scientific proof as though it is an adequate tool to approach metaphysics and spirituality. What a
load of rubbish. That's like using a socket wrench to wash dishes. Irrelevant.
We may well be blessed with the knowledge of hindisght, and therefore able to laugh at the ignorant animist tribesmen who thought that thunder was a
manifestation of their gods' anger, but it doesn't mean that spirituality has no place in humankind's experience of life.
It seems to me that a desire to explore spirituality is something that humans are quite often born with. In the same way as a hypothetical foetus
might wave its semi-formed limbs in front of its face, not knowing their function or purpose, humankind has, since the dawn of time, sought to
approach the Divine and try to provide themselves with ideas and explanations for that which is NOT measurable or observable. There seems to be a
kernel within that almost instinctively reaches out and starts to ask questions about the invisible, the unmeasurable, the unknowable.
To dismiss this ALL with a (not very witty) metaphor about the 3 little pigs seems to me boorish, thoughtless, and superficial, and indicative of a
mind that doesn't have much interest in what is beyond its empirical senses. Wilful ignorance doesn't seem any more desirable to me than delusion.
They are similar in many ways.
I don't subscribe to any particular religion, but I think that there is much to be learned from many of them.
[edit on 25-5-2009 by Roark]
