The Bible and the Gun
I often puzzle over the fact that people everywhere have the capacity to make hard nosed, logical judgments in all matters of business, yet switch off the critical circuits in their minds when they are told about life after death, miracles and other similar things.
We all know people who believe Jesus was raised from the dead and who expect to go bodily into heaven on the last day of normal human existence.
If you try to sell these same people a dodgy car or a house without proper title they would laugh at you.
How can the human mind accommodate such contrasts?
In the USA we see the same contradiction when it comes to guns.
Good, well meaning, decent people defend the "right" to carry weapons which have only one purpose. These same people are distressed and puzzled when the weapons are used for that very purpose.
They have yet to work out why the USA has gun murders at a rate inconceivable in other developed countries and even higher than that of many third world countries.
The human mind is an extraordinary thing.
We need constant effort to battle against this kind of extreme whether the issue is guns or religion.
The link is to an article by well known journalist Tony Eastley.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/dispatches/2008/11/hello-ohio.html#more
British Humanist Society News
- Gove's pledge on 'extremist' schools must be backed by statutory powers, cautions BHA
- BHA contributes to children's rights review
- BHA: The campaign against 'faith Academies' goes on
- NHS funding of homeopathy puts patient choice above evidence of effectiveness
- Best way to improve Sex and Relationships Education is to make it compulsory
We're still not much more
We're still not much more than a chimpanzee with clothes on.
In the gun they trust.
In the gun they trust.
Because it simplifies our
Because it simplifies our understanding, we like to put others into ‘different from us’ categories, to reinforces our own beliefs a bit like highlighting text in bold. Bearing that in mind it is understandable that Humanists should ridicule beliefs held by others i.e. in some form of life after death, as proof of irrational thinking when they Humanists are wiser and know better.
It seems to me that the more we understand the less we know and in fact we know nothing about this chain of events we call existence, whether before birth or after death…..nothing.
Knowing Beyond Science ..W. J. Korab-Karpowicz
http://www.nhinet.org/korab15-2.pdf
The time after you die is the
The time after you die is the same as before you were born -- disappointing.
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