On 9 Aug 2004, at 5:40 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 08:53 PM 8/8/04, Damon Agretto wrote:
Of course, with Protestantism, you can follow your own voice
Are you sure? I would say that you can follow your own voice with atheism, if by "follow your own voice" you mean "do as you damned� well please." Is that a correct understanding of what you mean by "follow your own voice"? Are there no constraints on what a Protestant should follow?
I would say that religion is about doing as "you damned well please." After all, people choose which brand of crazy nonsense to invest their faith in, and there are thousands to choose from. And if all else fails one can always make up a new one, as happens regularly. Scientology, Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple...
So I see religion as a license to believe any crazy nonsense at all, and thereby to justify committing absolutely any heinous evil act whatsoever.
On the other hand as a rational man I am very much more constrained in what I can believe or justify.
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