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Originally Posted by amyvega
sorry to bump this, but over the past year I've gotten to know a few christians who are rather intelligent people and not the fundamentalist idiots I usually make them out to be.
Could it be that the Fallwells/Grahams/700 Club's of the world ruin it for everyone else?
Don't Catholics believe in science? It just makes me sick that anybody who is considered religious is automatically forced into a category with small minded nutjobs that we all despise. Granted, I only know a FEW religious folk who are pro gay rights and pro choice, but certainly there's more out there than we think?
//sorry to be off topic a bit but i've had like 70 glasses of wine and i found this thread again
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Tough to say. To me, the mere adoption of a religious creed suggests a narrowed perspective. If you claim to subscribe to a faith-based ideology (for the sake of this argument, "religious" or idol-worshipping), you're agreeing to abide by and lending credence to all tenets of its philosophy. Therefore, altering your observance of those rules to accommodate your own principles, or injecting what you feel to be logic (e.g. rejecting more extreme Catholic views on sacredness of marriage, what have you), is hypocritical, self-serving, and presumptuous.
In a way, I respect religious "fundamentalists" more, because their "faith" doesn't waiver, and they've adopted the attitude that if you're going to sign up for something, you're not going to do it half-assed, you're going to respect the ideology in its original authorship, and you're not going to alter your mentality or behavior with the temptations of modernity or moral convenience. They may be utterly insane and completely illogical, but they're stickin' to their guns, man!
Anyway, what this means in short is, yes, I blanketly judge the religious, because I'm an ass like that.