thread: 2006-09-08 : Picky-choosy religion, 3 views
On 2006-09-12, Jye Nicolson wrote:
Hi!
My reaction to mashup religion or choosing to worship your stuffed cat or whatever is instinctively to not treat it as religion.
If you tell me you're religious, I automatically get a little angry at you! That's because I feel religion always entails willful ignorance about reality, and usually entails allegiance to an unelected alien power.
If you then follow up with "I'm religious for Cthulu, and my cat!" then I'm pretty sure you're not doing either of the bad things I mentioned above. I'll feel like you're really saying "My cat, Cthulu and religious trappings are all really cool".
And I'll agree with you (except for the cat; I'm not a pet person). I loved Evangelion too. But I'm not going to take your religious assertions seriously, which is great because it means I'm not upset at you for being a willing slave of the Shab-al Hiri roach.
Normally I don't make a big point of this sort of thing (I usually try to avoid discovering people's religious leanings unless I'm fairly close to them), but this is a VERY open group of threads, so I thought I'd share.
