tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881681150508924494.post8872375765763056151..comments2023-06-01T03:44:39.299-07:00Comments on The Jaded Hippy: Religious Diversitywhatsernamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15731411057968563416noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881681150508924494.post-10609451047301517422007-10-22T09:56:00.000-07:002007-10-22T09:56:00.000-07:00You're going to have a hard time winning me over w...You're going to have a hard time winning me over with that one when I don't believe there is such a thing as Truth with a capital T.whatsernamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15731411057968563416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881681150508924494.post-86440823406325561682007-10-22T02:42:00.000-07:002007-10-22T02:42:00.000-07:00Diversity is all fine & dandy, but only in the con...Diversity is all fine & dandy, but only in the context of rational secularism. When you realize that religion is basically institutionalized psychosis, the whole 'freedom of worship' thing becomes a bit silly and trivial. Paranoid schizophrenic or manic-depressive? PTSD or OCD? Apeshit crazy or just a little loopy? Your choice! <BR/><BR/>Truth > diversity, imho.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881681150508924494.post-88808857726525287952007-10-20T11:14:00.000-07:002007-10-20T11:14:00.000-07:00Well I said "monotheists," but truly of course it ...Well I said "monotheists," but truly of course it is a -certain type- of monotheist that does this. Mostly certain kinds of Christians and Muslims. Still there is an element of this in even more open Christian dogma, at least to my mind as someone who was one growing up.whatsernamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15731411057968563416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881681150508924494.post-64313804455440363652007-10-20T09:18:00.000-07:002007-10-20T09:18:00.000-07:00hell yes.but.i'm just non-religious right now, so ...hell yes.<BR/><BR/>but.<BR/><BR/>i'm just non-religious right now, so i don't feel particularly invested in this. still, i don't think it's fair to blame christianity as a religion or to blame all christians for the evangelical side. that is the part that wants sameness, but not all of christianity acts that way. and, on the flip side, i've known some equally obnoxious evangelical pagans.<BR/><BR/>it's more a people thing than a specific-type-of-people thing. because, interestingly, diversity and sameness are both (i think) basic human impulses.bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07097517328072159174noreply@blogger.com