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Originally Posted by truncated
Tough to say. To me, the mere adoption of a religious creed suggests a narrowed perspective. If you claim to subscribe to a faith-based ideology (for the sake of this argument, "religious" or idol-worshipping), you're agreeing to abide by and lending credence to all tenets of its philosophy. Therefore, altering your observance of those rules to accommodate your own principles, or injecting what you feel to be logic (e.g. rejecting more extreme Catholic views on sacredness of marriage, what have you), is hypocritical, self-serving, and presumptuous.
In a way, I respect religious "fundamentalists" more, because their "faith" doesn't waiver, and they've adopted the attitude that if you're going to sign up for something, you're not going to do it half-assed, you're going to respect the ideology in its original authorship, and you're not going to alter your mentality or behavior with the temptations of modernity or moral convenience. They may be utterly insane and completely illogical, but they're stickin' to their guns, man!
Anyway, what this means in short is, yes, I blanketly judge the religious, because I'm an ass like that.
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i understand that logic, i mean the most strict are the most faithful to the gospel, but many of their leaders be it pastors or government officials break any commandment they want when it suits them, especially adultery which seems to be the most popular broken commandment of the religious right
it's interesting to look at my parents are proclaimed catholics, but they very lapsed catholics who never go to church unless it's for a wedding or a funeral (which for my dad is becoming common place considering many firefighters don't have long life spans), and also while they don't like abortion, they do believe in the right for a woman to choose, and they respect my own personal views on religion but still have a strong faith, and doesn't seem to waiver.
it's a very unique outlook, but but while their is a certain honesty in sticking to the word of the gospel, i have much more respect to those who are able to see past many of the tenants of something that written some two millennium ago and look to morality based on human rights which more often then not that people who preach to the book have certainly ignored when it suited their needs