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Monkeyontuesday -> RE: Pastor Sends Obama To Hell (8/27/2009 11:57:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Esinn
The reason for this is quite simple. Each religion demands its own, not the others, is the absolute.
That's not true for all religions or even the majority of them.
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For those reasons a person can extrapolate almost any personal meaning they desire from religion and accept them on 'faith'. For some reason in this country, well I discussed why a few times, faith it taboo to question or criticize. So, unlike in other fields where such ideas would be exposed religion loves and comforts them.
In my experience, the people who get all worked into a tizzy are those people who are insecure in their faith or are otherwise antagonistic and thus acting AGAINST their faith. Pauline Christianity is a bastardized form of what Jesus said, imo.
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This taboo of questioning faith is dying or asking people:
"Do you really believe that?"
"Do you really think this is a rational belief"
"Please detail why other than faith you believe this".
These questions are never viewed as an attack personal or otherwise outside the context of religion. However, within the context. Well, crackpots were never forced to address them
Um... You don't ask dying people this because they're dying and you would rather comfort them? That is, unless you're a cold, sadistic prick and would like to badger someone on their way out.
There is and is not a way to go about discussing religion. If you go around calling people names and not listening to their side, just spew your own antagnostic, myopic point of view, yeah, people get upset. You'd get upset talking about anything with that outlook. And, from what I've seen thus far, you tend to do such things then use others' frustrations to justify your own ill-conceived sociological conclusions.
And you're correct, in America the civil religion is something that is difficult to get away from, especially in the South, and I hate predispensationalism with a passion, for the record -- but that gets into a whole nother conversation.
Predispensationalism: The notion that the U.S. must support Israel regardless of its blunders or successes because it is God's chosen country / nation / people.
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