Be more like...these guys? YES!
This is a response to a post on Trent Vanegas' excellent "Pink is the New Blog" regarding Ricky Gervais' humanist views.
I'm one of those people that both sides hate. I'm an agnostic. The Fundamentalist Christian lot hates me because I don't agree with their view of a deity who is in essence an abusive egomaniac parent, punishing their children for not completely and utterly adulating them. Seriously, if there is a deity or deities, they are so much more advanced than humans that our adulation would not be in any way necessary to their existence! I despise organized religion because it has started so many conflicts and separates people from each other.
On the other hand, I get crap from atheists because I don't believe that we are all just "walking meat sacks" whose entire consciousness will wink out when our bodies die. I believe there is something more to it than that but I don't claim to understand what it is. The more acerbic Atheists think that people like me are stupid because we have any spark of spiritual belief. And I don't think that's cool either, or that it's very scientific. A true scientist would say that we can't PROVE such a belief is true but would keep an open mind to future findings rather than belittling someone who said they think that survival of the conscious energy is possible in some form.
The point is that none of us really KNOW for sure. So it would be nice if we could stop belittling and hating on each other and show some love. Whatever the case of the existence or lack thereof of a soul, it sure as hell wouldn't hurt to adopt the Bill and Ted philosophy and be excellent to each other. It would certainly make it a better world.
Happy Xmahannukwanzyule.
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