Quote:
Originally posted by GreatWyrm of Babylon@Aug 27 2003, 11:49 PM
You are defining your personal philosophy here as a negative. Therefore you not only give validity to your opposition by telling them you only exist because they do, but if you somehow achieve your ends and religion as you see it goes away what do you have left(?), since you define yourself by reference to them. |
In support of Dislogic, I would say that you are manipulating what he said to serve your own ends. He is not defining his personal philosophy as a contradiction of religion, as you are stating. What I believe he is saying is that he has his own philosophy, and chose to follow whatever it is instead of religion because he does not believe in (your) personal philosophy.
As a side note, there is no opposition for him to give validity to, there are the believers and there are the non-believers. Neither oppose each other, and it is only the extreme cases that push their own beliefs on one another.
Now, in my personal opinion, men gave birth to religion as a social control. However, man's creation gave birth to faith and has evolved into much more than it was meant to be.