It is amazing how Christians hide behind scripture. They dare not think for themselves. They also use it to justify the most horrible behaviors.
If you got a headful of scripture then you got a headful of ideas that have stopped growing. That would be a headful of dead ideas.
Talk to the scripture cuz the head ain't listening.
It is perhaps one of the most fundamentally annoying things about engaging with fundamentally-aligned religious folks... the never ending referral to scripture, which is always the same fallacy: begging the question.
ReplyDeleteScripture is a wall which protects them, most likely from their own fear of being empty. If one has believed in god his or her whole life, then what must it feel like to lose him? Terrifying, utterly terrifying.
I like immensely the song "Black & Gold" by Sam Sparro. Other than sounding cool, I believe it describes perfectly this dilemma faced by people who cling too tightly to their religion. It is also framed around evolution:
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If the fish swam out of the ocean
and grew legs and they started walking
and the apes climbed down from the trees
and grew tall and they started talking
and the stars fell out of the sky
and my tears rolled into the ocean
now i'm looking for a reason why
you even set my world into motion
'cause if you're not really here
then the stars don't even matter
now i'm filled to the top with fear
that it's all just a bunch of matter
'cause if you're not really here
then i don't want to be either
i wanna be next to you
black and gold
black and gold
black and gold
i looked up into the night sky
and see a thousand eyes staring back
and all around these golden beacons
i see nothing but black
i feel a way of something beyond them
i don't see what i can feel
if vision is the only validation
then most of my life isn't real
'cause if you're not really here
then the stars don't even matter
now i'm filled to the top with fear
that it's all just a bunch of matter
'cause if you're not really here
then i don't want to be either
i wanna be next to you
black and gold
black and gold
black and gold
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The fear is that without religion, there is no greater purpose, there is no magic.
Although the feeling of that loss is real, the premise from which the feeling arises is simply not true.
I see it out on youtube
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Will give it a listen. Thanks.