Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "Corey Gil-Shuster"
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armin38822 You couldn't be further from the truth. Religion is primarily about self-knowledge, it's about gaining higher virtue in place of temporary pleasure. Temporary pleasure which you esteem as being the highest good, but it's not.
"Being left alone without religon,gods,rituals or any spiritual teachings we find ourselves
alone on an island,forced for the first time
to think for ourselves and try to make sense of it all."
I'll counter this with a quote from Robinson Crusoe:
“What is this earth and sea that i have seen so much, whence it is produced, and what am i, and all the other creatures, wild and tame, human and brutal, whence are we?
Sure we are all made by some secret power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky, and who is that?
Then it followed most naturally, it is God that has made it all: well, but then it came on strangely, if God has made all these things, He guides and governs them all, and all things that concern them; for the power that could make all things, must certainly have power to guide and direct them.” Daniel Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe.
"depending on your geographical location." I'm a Neoplatonist, but i've never been to Greece. We live in the 21stcentury, we have the internet these days.
So really it's you that needs to ask yourself, "am i just arrogant and condescending?", just because you rejected the nonsense of Literal religious interpretation, doesn't mean you're any more intelligent than anyone else.
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