Thursday, March 13, 2008

Wish I could get $1.6 million for being a prick

I caught this on NPR and initially was thinking: "This guy (Michael Heller) seems kinda cool."

Until...(3:50)

"...I saw that the people who are not believer they very easily give surrender to evil of the world but those who are believers are much stronger and that's one point and another point without god the evil in the world is something absolutely meaningless and if you believe in god the evil is not something meaningless it's only a mystery something we do not understand"

This fucktard thinks that people need to believe in a god in order to understand what is right and wrong. That believers are "stronger" by the virtue of their faith in belief in a god. Stronger how? This man believes that I and many other people are incapable of distinguishing right from wrong because they don't believe in a god. Namely the Christian god. By "strong" he means that those who don't believe are inherently weak, therefore inferior or incapable of grasping the tenants of Christian morality. This may be so, but who is to say that Christian morality is the pinnacle of the entirety of human morality? These people live in a fucking box!
Evil in the world? What the fuck is "evil" anyway? The machinations of Satan? Or human foibles, human downfalls or human degredation? The Catholic Church surely defines evil as the machinations of Satan and their policy regarding evil hinges on the fallen angels existence. Do any of you believe in Satan? I mean for real!

Also I have a bit of bone to chew with this whole "meaning/meaningless" bit. What the hell is meaning? Let's assign a different word: purpose. This entails that we are put on this earth for a reason and that after we die we will be shown the "purpose" by which we have lived our lives on earth. How weak is that?

I'm just too frustrated to go on.

LINK: Reconciling Science and Religion