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Aswad -> RE: Spiritual Compatibility (4/28/2007 5:42:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
It effects me. It effects the world. It's the reason I can't walk my slave on a leash in public. It's why the most intelligent men in history have been tortured to death. It's keeping people from understanding what this world is really about.
Of course it affects the world. Or, more relevantly, its legacy does. Which is to say inertia does. Humanity changes slowly, if ever, and societies are no different in this regard.
Secular faiths are the reasons religions aren't allowed to follow their own practices when those exceed the tolerance of secular faithful, just like religious faiths are the reasons why secular people aren't allowed to express their practices fully. People, as a collective (not as individuals), always want to control what other people can and cannot do. And different groups have different ideas about what should and shouldn't be allowed. Modern western society introduces a compromise by numbers.
With regards to walking your slave on a leash in public, I've not noticed any other correlation with faith and/or religion here than what can be adequately explained by the correlation between conservativism and those faiths. The conservativism is the factor, IMO, along with the inertia of social mores. It's a matter of majorities suppressing the freedoms of minorities, as always.
And religious faiths don't have a monopoly on torturing intelligent people, or people in general. The atheist faith in the USSR was responsible for quite a bit of hostilities directed at people of different (religious) faiths, as well as people of different secular faiths, in that those who did not have faith in the communist regime were frequently locked up as schizophrenic, and "treated" accordingly, for their "delusion" that communism wasn't the perfect thing. Kind of dogmatic, IMO.
Since you appear to know, I'd appreciate if you could share your insight, as I've often wondered myself (my faith doesn't provide any answer in this regard): What is the world really all about? Seriously, I'm curious. If you know, or if anyone knows, I'd like to be in on the "secret". I'm pretty sure a lot of other religious people out there would like to, as well.
Finally, as far as my faith is concerned, I think it should be perfectly acceptable to walk your slave on a leash in public; I regard free will to be the most sacred gift of all, and willing submission to another to be a most profound gesture, a sacrament, if you will.
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