Originally posted by: JD50
Originally posted by: shira
I guess you're not very familiar with the concept of irony.
The religious right is all caught up in how "pro-family" they are. Well, what it all adds up to is that all their bibles and all their morality and all their talk of the love of God don't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to the success of their marriages and the behavior of their kids. And yet - with absolutely nothing objective to show for their belief system, except the based-on-exactly-nothing self-satisfied smugness that their beliefs are right - STILL they want to impose their quaint, 18th-century reality on the rest of us.
Excuse my while I laugh at them.
I was taught about safe sex but I still knocked up my gf when I was 19, OMG stop teaching kids to use condoms it obviously doesn't work!!!!?!?!?!? You people aren't this stupid.
Of course not. There will always be teen pregnancies regardless of how well-prepared kids are. The difference is choice. Stress abstinence, of course. But don't deprive kids of additional information. And if some parents don't want their kids to learn about contraception, let them opt out of that portion of the course.
It's the difference between acting as if you've got all the answers for everyone, and knowing that there isn't a single right answer.
And, frankly, it gets old pretty fast when these true believers characterize everything as gifts or challenges from God. Don't mess around before marriage. But if you do and get preggers, it's a blessing from God. Do these loonies realize how ridiculous they sound? If God is such a meddler in human affairs, what the fvck is this "free will" stuff? Does God just sort of randomly meddle? Is it impossible to know his "mysterious ways?" How come we have to pray to God for miracles? Doesn't God know everything we want before we utter a word? Before we even think it? Or is it that God is just so distracted with a trillion details we've got to get his attention by praying? Why does God need to even see us making the effort - He either knows we really believe or that we don't. So what's with all the fervency? Why force us into a kabuki dance?
If God wants devotion and belief, why doesn't he just come on down from his throne and perform a few undeniable, stupendous miracles for all the world to see? Why is "blind faith" considered such a virtue when it comes to Christianity, when in every other aspect of life, operating without getting a little confirmation would be considered gross negligence? Come to think of it, why doesn't God just plant belief in our little brains?
And how come a person's
reason for believing doesn't matter? I mean, if someone believes because that'll get them the goods, isn't that disreputable? Why isn't believing for no reason other than that the belief justifies itself - with no selfish motives at all - the only valid reason for believing? And if I, recognizing that it's disreputable to believe in order to get something in return, refuse to believe unless I can hold that belief for "pure" reasons", end up NOT believing, how come I'm punished for taking the high road?
Sorry for the rant and for seeming so intolerant. I'm really not - I'm comfortable with other people getting comfort however they can in this bitter world. But why the need to impose all this stuff on others?