Technically, I am agnostic, but I call myself an AntagoGnostic, because I ask tough questions, and I expect good answers to them.
I am not religious- even in my Pagan beliefs. The idea of agnostic Pagans might be surprising to some, but religion just seems to do something to the soul.
I think that physicist Steven Weinberg might be onto something:
"Good people tend to do good, and evil people tend to do evil, but for good people to do evil- that takes religion."
And it does not matter what religion it is. I'm an equal opportunity detester of religion.
I believe that there is some being greater than ourselves- a creative force that spun us off. But that creative force gave us brains and free will, and the ability to use these things to figure out the secrets of the universe- and the creator(s), too. Religion locks that all away (http://thomhartmann.org/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=4831010351&f=2051097651&m=1381081851&r=6171032891#6171032891), gives people a single story to believe in, and tells everyone that the world is going to end like a bad disaster/horror movie.
It will if we let it. I will not let it. I choose not to believe in or worship any ill-tempered, book-bound, bronze age tribal thunder gods This god is a psychopath, and, if the Gnostics and their kin are to be believed, not really a god at all. And anyone who takes a book written by an acid-dropping hermit seriously is doomed to be destroyed by those who use that book to manipulate world events.
CNN is just another religious right glove puppet, just like Fox. I no longer take anything they say seriously. They're playing to the sheep. I am glad that I did not see that segment, because I might have harmed my television.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-07-25 03:36 pm (UTC)I am not religious- even in my Pagan beliefs. The idea of agnostic Pagans might be surprising to some, but religion just seems to do something to the soul.
I think that physicist Steven Weinberg might be onto something:
And it does not matter what religion it is. I'm an equal opportunity detester of religion.
I believe that there is some being greater than ourselves- a creative force that spun us off. But that creative force gave us brains and free will, and the ability to use these things to figure out the secrets of the universe- and the creator(s), too. Religion locks that all away (http://thomhartmann.org/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=4831010351&f=2051097651&m=1381081851&r=6171032891#6171032891), gives people a single story to believe in, and tells everyone that the world is going to end like a bad disaster/horror movie.
It will if we let it. I will not let it. I choose not to believe in or worship any ill-tempered, book-bound, bronze age tribal thunder gods This god is a psychopath, and, if the Gnostics and their kin are to be believed, not really a god at all. And anyone who takes a book written by an acid-dropping hermit seriously is doomed to be destroyed by those who use that book to manipulate world events.
CNN is just another religious right glove puppet, just like Fox. I no longer take anything they say seriously. They're playing to the sheep. I am glad that I did not see that segment, because I might have harmed my television.