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And this, apparently, is how atheism will bring about the collapse of society and the extinction of the human race. I am delighted to see that I am responsible in my small way for such a momentous change. However I am disappointed that there is no mention of smutty literature. Surely:
Pornographic fiction --> excessive masturbation --> fewer fertile impregnations --> human extinction!
No?
Disrespect for life and genocide? Ahem: The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, how are they to be accounted for? Not to mention ALL THE OTHER RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTERING.
ReplyDeleteHowever, they are right about people becoming comsumers only. I do feel this. Spending and things have replaced any form of spirituality that might have existed en mass. Though, I'm not so confident there was much spirituality beneath the front.
Religion is about control, is what's being said here, though they don't know it.
Bless you for posting on a Sunday morning, when everyone else must be eating blueberry pancakes and having wonderful, fulfilling family time or something. I#m Bored...
Anyone who thinks spirituality and conspicuous consumption are opposed has never had a look at the Vatican collection.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even going to look. (Blood pressure, you know.)
ReplyDeleteHelia and I had a friend—a friend, someone who liked us a lot and admired us and trusted us—who casually mentioned to us over a meal one evening, knowing that we were both atheists, that when he thought of atheism he would "always think of the Nazis" and that he felt anyone who was a nonbeliever was incapable of having morals.
Oh, that's grim, Jeremy. But saying "And when I think of Christians I always think of the Spanish Inquisition" would probably not enhance the friendship.
ReplyDeleteThe problem of course is that human beings just love to pigeonhole people. We are not comfortable unless we have a neat label to put on others which will give us a prepackaged and simplistic picture of them. It's so much easier than constantly reminding ourselves that people are complex individuals, and that we can't automatically know what another person is like just because we know their religion, ethnicity, political affiliation, hobbies or job.
Incidentally, this guy wasn't a Christian—he was someone who had been brought up in a securalized Jewish environment and had later become fundamentalistic in his Judaism. (Whereas I, by contrast, was brought up in a secularized Jewish environment and later became completely atheistic.)
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that unification of world governments is part of the destruction of the world. I would think getting all the governments to stop killing each other would be a good thing. I also don't think civil war is a logical conclusion for unifications.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I put most of that under the idea that allow gay marriages would something logically result in people marrying their dogs.
Oops, sorry Jeremy. I shouldn't have assumed he was a Christian. I should have said:
ReplyDelete"And when I think of Judaism I think of the genocide inflicted on the Cities of the Plains, in the Book of Joshua."
And yes, t'Sade - I think we're agreed on the level of logical rigour in that flowchart!
I should have thought that, given how over-populated the world is, fewer successful impregnations means that the there might actually be enough to go round for current population. Therefore Pornographic fiction --> excessive masturbation --> fewer fertile impregnations --> no mass starvation --> fewer people but they're all MUCH happier!
ReplyDeleteBTW, on the subject of spiritually-motivated consumerism, check out http://corporate.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/storefrontprofiles/DeluxeSFItemDetail.aspx?sid=1&sfid=102217&c=10042693&i=53976754.
I just glad my scary aunt (who is a baptist and a creationist) did NOT succeed in persuading my mum that the whole family including myself as more or less an agnostic, and my husband as probably a Buddhist, should go on a christian prayer retreat. Religion is fine behind closed doors between consenting adults!
Interesting. Completely spurious and wrong, but interesting. And amusing. On the topic of religion, I recently came across a flowchart entitled 'Mediaeval decisionmaking for penitents' ovet at boingboing.net -
ReplyDeletehttp://boingboing.net/2007/08/21/flowchart-medieval-s.html
There's plenty more curious stuff over there...
Beth, you know my opinion of children!
ReplyDeleteAnd I loved that flowchart Fulani! It should be given out as a poster to newlyweds, lol.