Yes, that's what I meant, when I said that too much of what passes for religious doctrine and practice is like chaff, that too often obscures that bedrock ideal and sometimes even violates it.
I just want to be clear: I give you, Gunnar, credit for valuing kindness, and I think you have overlaid your own decency over religion, obscuring how most religious outcomes really look. You found kindness where you could, because you were looking for it.
You're a good guy. You deserve the credit, not religion.
Religion is for people whose existential fear is greater than their common sense. It's also the favored cover for hypocrites.
Yes, that's what I meant, when I said that too much of what passes for religious doctrine and practice is like chaff, that too often obscures that bedrock ideal and sometimes even violates it.
I just want to be clear: I give you, Gunnar, credit for valuing kindness, and I think you have overlaid your own decency over religion, obscuring how most religious outcomes really look. You found kindness where you could, because you were looking for it.
You're a good guy. You deserve the credit, not religion.
Thanks! I feel the same about you!
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
