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i don't normally get a new view on religion or morals from five second cartoon sketches but something from an episode of family guy actually made me do a think on saturday night. in it, two biblical looking guys are having a conversation that goes something like:
"i like you and have no reason to irrationally hate or persecute you"
"i feel the same way"
then a third guy walks in and says:
"hey did you guy hear about that magic baby that was born in bethlehem?"
and all three of them immediately stab each other to death.
[/sketch]
not saying it was some great epiphany, but it did make me consider again what the world would actually be like if religion a sa concept didn't exist... and like the writer of that sketch i'm pretty sure that humans, being humans would be perefctly capable of finding other reasons to tribalise, seperate and fear and despise each other. like... maybe which end of their boiled egg they opened... oh wait...
anyway. just saying (that as a staunch atheist who might occasionally fall into the trap of seeing religion as the source of so many of the world's ills) it neatly made the point that perhaps it's people themselves that are the real root of people's problems, and as such, elimination of religion might not actually solve any of these problems.
the rest of the episode was m'kay. m'kay?
sorry. news thread. not religion thread. carry on.