It's one of my objections to religionists."I would think an decent god would prefer we question their existance yet follow their teachings" e #176
- First they insinuate themselves as authorities on the subject.
- Next they spew absurdities, portraying god as a sentience with the vanity of a school girl.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger (c.3 BCE - CE 65)
I don't fault the accuracy of the above quotation, regardless of attribute. But I live by the following quotation. I'm not silent on the matter. But I share my steps along the way. *
"The tragedy of religion is that it languishes if unorganized, and it suffers corruption if it is organized, and when badly corrupted it has demonstrated a fierce ability to do harm." author Will Durant
* "What I learned in Zen was that all the higher spiritual truths resolve into paradox." Leo Volont
- Trust those that seek the truth, distrust those that claim to have found it. - paraphrase of words attributed to the Buddha