Here’s a paraphrased excerpt of a
line of “reasoning” I heard the other day.
“We can’t prove or show to be true
the things revealed to us by Christ or in the bible to be true. It’s
only after we accept on faith that what we’ve been told is true
that we can start to draw some conclusions. After
we accept that Christ died for us, then we can know that it was
because he loved us and it was to save us from sin.”
This still shakes
me to my core. How about this: “Once I accept on faith that black
people are all about of an African cult, I can draw some important
conclusions. They are inferior and dirty. I mean look at their skin,
it matches dirt! Clearly God was setting us up to draw this inference
and guide us away from this lowly race.”
Why is reasoning to be dammed? Someone
explain to me in terms that make sense and not “just because people
are different” how you allow yourself to say things so abjectly
failing. I literally could not draw a closer analogy to what happens
when you just accept some premise, let alone a
divine one because it makes you feel good or that’s what you’re
used to or whatever else.
The sickening idea isn’t that you
want to believe in something; it’s that you simply don’t care to
recognize that you aren’t making any sense! The obvious logical
person in me asks, how can I get upset that someone who isn’t
making sense can’t reason that they aren’t in fact making sense?
But it then goes further into how they can draw proper conclusions
about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING else less this one topic. As a result,
faith becomes deliberate and calculated stupidity. I don’t care if
you only feel like it influences a small part or
every decision in your life, you are choosing, very scarily and clear
mindedly, to go against making sense.
You didn’t get into a bad
relationship because a god is testing you; you probably just had
shitty role models and terrible ideas about yourself. You don’t
deserve anything, you’re acted upon by a confluence of forces that
you pray turns out into a net positive feeling that you can surmise
your life into.
This is impossibly frustrating. What
the hell am I fighting for? If no matter what I accomplish, no matter
what example I set, it’s all going to degrade into society
collectively breaking down and justifying how to pretend otherwise?
I’ve truly never understood super villain reasoning like I do now.
“These idiots understand nothing but
violence and fear, us vs. them, so I’ll play by their rules and get
them to unite against the only thing that provides them the truth
they fear is stained by too much reality.”
“Holy shit! They’ll believe in
ANYTHING! I should do any number of the same steps that a cult,
pyramid scheme, or ‘charitable organization’ has done to bilk
them for every penny.”
“So what if I pollute or kill or
steal, most people are too lazy to even state they may not like what
I’m doing, and by the time anything gets changed, we’ll all be
dead and I’ll have accomplished my goal.”
Deliberate and calculated stupidity
needs to be eradicated, not excused. You’re not fucking children.
OH wait….
