and to burn the crowd that has a name Options

[Badman]

Actually I'm not a religious person in the usual sense of the word, so I wasn't at all offended.
And since I don't wanna go all off topic,we'll leave it at that.

[This thread jumps off this longer discussion in the Ed section]

Believe me, you aren't alone Opine. Most people on this website are pretty non-religious. I do have a theory for this:

In the absence of church leaders telling us what to do, many of us learned to think for ourselves. We sought out music that "made us think" such as TC and MJ which caused us to fall in love with the band. I mean, these songs are all open for interpretation and offer real advice for how to live our lives. We are the world, good pain, and the idea that water is both the giver and the taker of life. This is some deep stuff.

Because many of us feel this way towards religious and shallow music, we have experienced a complete rejection of Ed's new direction. This is a generalization of the fans from my point of view but I'd like to know if this resonates with anyone here. Has this music at some point in your life replaced/stood in for religious feelings?

[World Dreamer]

Religion is funny.

If you don't do it exactly like someone else then you are wrong and that applies to the non-religious too.

Everyone is smarter than everyone because no one wants to be wrong about something that is potentially eternal.

According to every religion, every other religion or variation of religion is wrong. You have the "once saved always saved" folks, or the God is wrathful folks, or the God is love folks and blah blah.

According to the non-religious, who "don't want you to push your beliefs on them, man" have no problem pushing thier opposite beliefs on you and making fun of you because religion is your "crutch" and blah blah.

All because they, religious and non, have convinced themselves that they are right because this is the ONE thing that you don't want to be on the wrong side of.

The truth is that the right answer isn't there. No one really knows what is exactly right or if there even is a right answer. So people do what they want and justify to themselves that whatever they are doing is "right".

Am I off-topic?

[PillarOfDavidson]

Religion is funny.

If you don't do it exactly like someone else then you are wrong and that applies to the non-religious too.

Everyone is smarter than everyone because no one wants to be wrong about something that is potentially eternal.

According to every religion, every other religion or variation of religion is wrong. You have the "once saved always saved" folks, or the God is wrathful folks, or the God is love folks and blah blah.

According to the non-religious, who "don't want you to push your beliefs on them, man" have no problem pushing thier opposite beliefs on you and making fun of you because religion is your "crutch" and blah blah.

All because they, religious and non, have convinced themselves that they are right because this is the ONE thing that you don't want to be on the wrong side of.

The truth is that the right answer isn't there. No one really knows what is exactly right or if there even is a right answer. So people do what they want and justify to themselves that whatever they are doing is "right".

Am I off-topic?

What do you think of Pascal's Wager, WD?