Moraligious
Bush lets us in on a secret: "President Bush said yesterday that he doesn't 'see how you can be president without a relationship with the Lord,' but that he is always mindful to protect the right of others to worship or not worship."
As an agnostic/atheist I want to be more pissed about this, but I know exactly where he's coming from. He is confusing, as so many do, a lack of religiosity with a lack of moral compass. More unforgivably he's confusing a lack of judeo(maybe)-christian religiosity with a lack of moral compass. But that aside, I wish that more people would come to terms with religion's role as a means of enforcing and promoting community moral standards, but not the only source thereof. Lots of Secular Humanists have the exact same moral system as Jesus, just without all that stuff about God.
I wonder if people like Bush really think we can't abide by our own morals without the threat of hell hanging over our heads. I imagine that says more about him, and the role of religion in his life, than anything else. Just because we aren't scared into it doesn't mean we aren't moral.
Groups it's still OK to be biased against:
-Gays
-The irreligious
As an agnostic/atheist I want to be more pissed about this, but I know exactly where he's coming from. He is confusing, as so many do, a lack of religiosity with a lack of moral compass. More unforgivably he's confusing a lack of judeo(maybe)-christian religiosity with a lack of moral compass. But that aside, I wish that more people would come to terms with religion's role as a means of enforcing and promoting community moral standards, but not the only source thereof. Lots of Secular Humanists have the exact same moral system as Jesus, just without all that stuff about God.
I wonder if people like Bush really think we can't abide by our own morals without the threat of hell hanging over our heads. I imagine that says more about him, and the role of religion in his life, than anything else. Just because we aren't scared into it doesn't mean we aren't moral.
Groups it's still OK to be biased against:
-Gays
-The irreligious
7 Comments:
Some of the most moral people I know AREN'T religious.
And then there are people like me, who don't believe *and* don't have a moral compass.
But, that's fine. I don't want to be President anyway.
I'd also like to add that most people get away with a stunning amount of antipathy to the East Asians. Particularly in Hollywood-originating media.
And according to the former Simpsons Executive Producer Mike Reiss, the only ethnic group the show never gets in trouble for bashing is the Irish.
Well they're all too drunk to write letters.
Right?
The Irish are also too busy taking care of their legion of babies. And stomping on Protestants. "Proddies," they call them.
In "Harsh Realm," when a digital charater "dies," they just fritz out in front of everyone and vanish. DB Sweeney then makes the hilarious argument that since Harsh Realmers know there's no afterlife, they don't have the same morality as we normal, God-fearing, non-virtual folk. It's an interesting theory, albeit a hilarious one. As if no one could be a good person without the threat of torture after death. But I do enjoy what a dim view it takes on general human nature.
-Jeff
DB Sweeney's a great actor.
I really like Fire in the Sky.
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