Oct 18th 2012, 2:46:07
Originally posted by Dissident:
I think that religion does more evil in the world than it does good. I think religion is one of those things worthy of mockery to illustrate its absurdity. It's called being skeptical really... and I'm certainly ok with that being a reflection on me.
Wouldn't you mock me for believing that Jack climbed up a bean stalk with magic beans and found a giant and all that? Well, i think Mormonism is just as absurd... just because several million people believe in it doesn't make it any less false. At one point, several million people believed that Obama wasn't born in America (some still do)... why argue with facts?
Wouldn't you mock me for believing that Jack climbed up a bean stalk with magic beans and found a giant and all that? Well, i think Mormonism is just as absurd... just because several million people believe in it doesn't make it any less false. At one point, several million people believed that Obama wasn't born in America (some still do)... why argue with facts?
Not to generalize too much, but every single Mormon I've ever met (and I live in Arizona, plenty of them) has come from a loving family with both parents and good character. These people went on to create more loving families with good character.
I see no sense in mocking them. Even if their religion seems absurd to you - it seems to be building people with good morals, ethics and character. I condone that.
Of course, you can always pick out some individuals within any religion and criticize the whole religion based on their actions, but let's not go there :P