Peculiar phenomenon. Don't know if it should still be called "religion".
It certainly happens that reality gets lost in the torrent of hype. But we also need a repeated spiritual kick up the backside to remind us what is real sometimes. If we dont love the unlovely or experience at least minor miracles: We probably need a reality check.What is real. Sensurround is not real. Spiderman is not real. God is not real. Is it any wonder they need spectacle and the rush of the epiphany to sell it?
"Membership in megachurches is one of the leading ways American Christians worship these days, so, therefore, these churches should be understood,"
And so this is why the rabble piled into notre dame?"Membership in megachurches is one of the leading ways American Christians worship these days, so, therefore, these churches should be understood,"
When all that is being taught to you from birth is: "The worth if anything must be judged against its dollar value", then having mega-churches is the next logical step.
Maximize income with while minimizing effort - no sense why religion shouldn't hop on that bandwagon.
Peculiar phenomenon. Don't know if it should still be called "religion".Wellman calls it a "good drug" because the message provides a conventional moral standard ...
Which conventional moral standard? Under the guise of enforcing "morality", lots of evil has been perpetrated.
Religion has done more harm to humanity than anything else humans have invented. We would all be vastly better off if religion did not exist.
Churches cultivate and promulgate the view that your neighbors are decent and want the same as you.
Religion provides a common set of laws, traditions, and social framework; based upon a mnemonic story which is easily remembered.No, that would be Aesop's fables
Yet memes are based on reality. How else can it be?
If we don't ... experience at least minor miracles: We probably need a reality check.
Amazingly sweeping statements being made...Such (lack of) thinking or proper insight and research makes for bad scientists, let alone rounded human beings...
We all know the happiness is not real, it is not based on reason, it is not based on science.
Now where did I leave that revolver? Yes, the joy on here is deafening.
Old saying: caught between Church and State: the former controls through guilt, the later through fear.Its a little more efficient than that. The state has the power to eliminate heretics.
Happiness is an emotion like any other, and it serves a purpose like any other. Happiness feels good,
Now where did I leave that revolver?
I see people walking around with these things stuck into their ears attacked to a little domino shaped thing. They play with some controls and seem to feel better.Yes many people listen to hymns and gospel music on them. And this guy:
And these people completely zone out to the world with these things stuck in their ears.
Is this some kind of drug?
alfie_null
Aug 19, 2012Which conventional moral standard? Under the guise of enforcing "morality", lots of evil has been perpetrated.