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Originally Posted by jon boy
what i really cant stand about people who are overly religious is that they never shut up about religion and use every available opportunity and thing you say to scew it to some religious thing or belief that they have, or go off about they're views when you never wanted to know in the first place. its the hijacking of things for personal gain that gets me.
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agreed, but you should make sure to discern sincerity for hypocrisy, after all, some people are just really into their religion, or are really new to their religion, like a new band or movie or scientific factoid or history book they just read, and so they feel the need to share it and bring it into every conversation. Others are just bible thumping or power-tripping, and these should be treated in the same humble patronizing that you would give an overeager 9 year old
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Originally Posted by hevusa
Amen to that! 
I'm not sure I will ever fully grasp why one would "make up" stuff just to fill the void of understand though. |
You continually misunderstand things you have not perhaps experienced as being made up by those who have. That is silly, why don't you just leave it as something you do know understand rather then making such rash assumptions? Let me explain it a bit better sans the theology:
Religion is the comforting place of the
songs our mothers sang which fill us with faith, hope, endurance, patience, joy in our times of sorrow, trial, boredom or rejoicing. Our lives on earth suck. This much is obvious. Religion, much like the theories of gravitation (there are multiple ones by the way
) are concepts and structures which explain the experience that our mothers faithful song conveys through time beyond the moments she sang, the reassurance that no matter the pain, the struggle, the difficulty, in time it will all pass. Everything will always inevitably work out some way in the end. We religious folk call this God(s)
"when i was just a kid.. my mother used to sing to me.. and those songs which she did sing, still linger deep within my soul..."