"We are God's sheep." wow, great analogy...
To be called a "sheep" is the typical analogy used in the catholic religion, and it couldn't be any more fitting. To be a sheep, one follows what is required of yourself, never questioning, never having a unique thought in your head, and never breaking the cycle of conformity.
Does this analogy scare anyone else out there? There are too many religions out there that force orthodoxy upon it's followers that it sickens me. You are either a sheep or a damned soul. Does this shepherd analogy disturb any of you as much as it does me? |
I once had a conversation with a Christian friend of mine and it can be summed up as follows:
Me: I don't want you to beleive everything, or even anything that I believe. I just want you to challenge what others tell you to beleive and actually think for yourself instead of just accepting things. Him: "I don't want to think" (exact words). Its easier for most people to live with the comfort that someone else is their intelectual leader. When everything you believe and think is dependent on another person it gives you a sense that you are mentally safe. |
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That's why so many people will choose Religions of Traditions.
Religions have rules. Traditions have the ability to change with the changes in society. |
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Except it was the tree of the Knowledge of Good and evil. Maybe I'm stupid and don't remember my christian teachers. |
Of course, Zappa takes his views and puts them into something he hardly knows shit about. If you ever take him seriously.... just take a look at his children and then change your views pronto.
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I could say almost the same thing about that 'Thomas Sowell' character pronto.
And you as well. |
The best thing about the Sheppard analogy, is that Sheperds tend sheep so they will stay safe and well fed until it's time to slaughter and eat them.
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Yes, I'll look at his children, who are affluent, intelligent, and well adjusted (notice how they're never in the news? that's because they haven't done anything crazy yet), for a good picture at Frank Zappa.
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Awww, did I stwike a nurwve wit you?
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Great comeback
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'stwike' I get, but 'nurwve'? What's that even supposed to sound like? What speech impediment is that supposed to represent?
My God, can't you even perform the simplest mockery without screwing up? |
VINTH! You wanted to join Mensa right? That means you'll go to hell, because you shouldn't be intelligent because you're a catholic! Quick! Forget how to write!
I seriously hope he takes my advice :( |
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The view of the sheep is two-fold...only seen together in light of the Shepard. You aren't a sheep because you blindly follow and believe everything that the Church accepts as absolute dogma (considering the Church has changed its mind over several years on a few issue), but because you recognize the existance of Jesus as a guiding light and helper in your life. It's a mere simile to the fact that God loves you and is watching over you, like a shepard does to his flock of sheep. There is no sense of conformity attached to it. |
No sense of conformity? You must belong to a very VERY lenient church, because most people I know that are Catholic do not believe they have much of a choice in the way they are allowed to behave, religiously speaking. Take a look at any of VinceZeb's posts about religion, and you can see right there that there is most certainly a very conformist sect in the Catholic Church.
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"Everybody bow and pray with me."
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Unless god doesn't exist. :lol
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But I don't have to worry about that. :)
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Lucky you. :(
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Indeed sir. :posh
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WTF is up with all the religon bashing on these boards?
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Some people come in and ask rational questions. They have an interest is debating or possibly learning something.
Others come in with an attitude of some kind of intellectual superiority because they got on the "hate religion" bandwagon. They ask questions while calling people "unthinking" and "childish" and then accuse us of being over defensive when we get pissed about it. |
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