This is what you wrote, and to what I was responding:
The religious think that they are not in a position to judge, and do not know the final word. Even those who think that God has told them important things acknowledge that for the most part they see "as through a glass, darkly". We are like children contemplating grown up actions, only the gap is infinitely greater. We say how we would run things, as if we were in a position to know all that goes into specific decisions. Then we criticize or reject God because His perspective differs from ours, like a five year old threatening to run away......
"The religious" linked to the many "we"s, and the comparison of yourself to children, to a five year old, the reference to, apparently, a God's "running things," to "specific decisions," to "God," all seemed very reminiscent of a Biblical "take" on the world. It was hardly a stretch. The distinction between you and a fundamentalist, given the above, isn't clear to me, but I accept that you feel there is a significant one.
Your belief that a fertilized egg is more important than a woman's right not to be forced against her will by the government to gestate, and your belief in a "soul" imbued by God, possibly even, someday, into computers, which would give them human rights, if I understood correctly, seem very "fundamentalist" to me. Tres tres.
So no, I didn't know you weren't a fundamentalist. |
