ORIGINAL: drockw
Hoytail,
I have to say you are entitled to your right to believe and create your own morality. Im not saying i feel the exact same way b/c I really dont do the whole religion thing
I don't either. Just because I use the word "God" doesn't mean that the Christian god or any god in particular is the driving force behind my conviction. I use it because it speaks to people in general.In fact, I am a godless man, at least in the regard of ones created by man. I only believe in a supreme being(s) but that is not to say I have no ethics, morals, values, etc.
I respect your opinions and beliefs and i dont really think that it should matter if someone puts something on a pedastool or not. Its probably hipocritical of anyone to say that they dont put anything up on a pedastool as well.
You are correct; No one man should decide for another what they should or shouldn't believe. You are correct again; It is hipocritical to say "you" don't put anything or any animal on a pedestal. "You" afterall are hunting deer because you value them more and it's more exciting to you than hunting coons with your bow right?
In others opinion putting a god or spiritual being up on a pedastool is ridiculous.
Yes, there are those who think that closing your eyes and speaking to a physically inexistent entity is pretty silly.(not my words, just something someone once said to me)
Personally, I see better and canmake the things I otherwise would be praying for happenmuch quicker with my eyesopen.
Could you imagine the responses though if someone were to say "Why do some put Jesus Christ, or mother Mary up on a pedastool.
This goes back to the point I was trying to make in an earlier post... anytime anyone berates or mocks another's ideologies, convictions, what have ya, the same kinds of basic human ugliness that are responsible for things such as racismare responsible for that same censure.