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dark_crystal · 09-03-2010, 12:47 PM

i realize the "Breaking News" thread has now been off-topic for like 3 pages, but i did want to add one last note regarding religion:

One of my favorite scriptural passages is The Parable of the Sower from Mark chapter 4:

A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times."
Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.

Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

We have it from Jesus's own (alleged) mouth that we can expect 75% of Christans to be completely clueless.

i actually live by an over-extrapolation of this parable called Jenny's 75% rule, which states that three-quarters of the people one meets are going to be idiots. This then has to be tempered with the Golden Rule, which requires that i expect this while still giving the benefit of the doubt to whoever's in front of me at any moment

oh yeah and regarding morality outside of religion, the categorical imperative still applies, i think

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