thread: 2007-01-25 : Worship followup
On 2007-01-25, Brand Robins wrote:
Heh.
I was about to ask you what you think you're blaspheming against, Mr. Atheist.
As for intent vs. action—that depends much on how you're defining religion. In public action intent means shit. In personal vision it means everything. So is religion about public ritual or personal belief?
Because historically it was once all about the first, and now for many of us has become all about the second. For most of humanity over time, however, its been somewhere in between.
It's one of the reasons why atheists often have a hard time identifying ancient atheists—because many of the ancients marched in the parade, because they weren't doing it for god, they were doing it for the city-state. But if you don't count intent, then....
