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Originally posted by filtherton
This person seems to think all of religion occured in ye olde catholic church or ye salem witch burnings. All this is is a bunch of one-sided innaccurate generalizations.
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They're examples. Point out the one-sided inaccurate generalizations.
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Religion, or anything else for that matter, is only a crutch when people use it in that manner. There are people who worship rush limbaugh or micheal moore like a god, is politics a crutch too?
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When you allow them to think for you, absolutely.
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However, religion, like politics, isn't a crutch by nature. The people who use it as a crutch use it as a crutch because they need a crutch. If crutch needing people didn't have religion to use they'd just find something else.
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True; and this also doesn't refute my argument at all. Having a crutch replace another crutch doesn't mean the first crutch isn't a crutch.
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People use athiesm or "straight edge" status as a crutch too. I'm know plenty of straight edgers use their sobriety to put themselves on a pedestal over their peers. Seemingly for no other reason than just wanting to feel superior. They use sobriety as a crutch to lift up their low self esteem and percieved lack of control(or some other pop-psych nonsense) Does that mean it is appropriate to, in a general sense, write off all straight edgers as using their sobriety as a crutch to help them feel morally superior to their peers? Would you ever post
"Straight edge is a crutch"?
I hope not.
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Argumentum Ad Hominem. You're describing one's self righteous actions; not the philosophy itself.
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It is just that so many people have no problem being religious and see no reason to change themselves in that respect.
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Ignorance is bliss.