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Originally Posted by Og 
Aye, it's true. Who do you think designs the communications systems and other hardware that enable our society to exist.
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Indians?
AndThey are what 80% Hindu, 15% Muslim 2.5% Christian and a host of other religions...a very religious, very educated people. There are also quite a few American evangelicals working in every sector of industry.
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Originally Posted by Og It's not that we would be able to talk our way out of the firing squad, we'd avoid it all together and direct the manipulable bio-mass of "the faithful" to do our bidding and put whoever we want on the firing squad. This is the policy of the current administration.
I'd much rather NOT have the ignorant masses out there for monsters like the Bush administration to prey on and manipulate. It's not that I don't feel like I couldn't avoid a firing squad. It's that I'd rather have a world of reasoned and self-aware friends where a rising tide raises all ships instead of the current situation where monsters step on the bodies of the ignorant to reach their idols. |
I totally agree that people are manipulated by those with power and influence. I just don't think that is what God is calling us to. I think the problem is people, not religion.
That's where I think Christianity speaks truth. It talks about how we are made in the image of God. We can be good, creative, insightful, caring, loving, but we are also plagued by a sinful nature. No matter how smart, how educated we are we are still corrupt.
So it doesn't matter if we are educated, we are still greedy, mean, selfish and hurtful.
I mean I am a pastor. I'm married, I tell people how to live, and yet I still have said things that have hurt my wife. The people I love the most, and yet somehow I can hurt them. There is something deeply wrong with humanity and curing ignorance is not the answer. It is curing the human condition the sinful nature. ANd I think that only happens in the saving grace of Jesus Christ.