@uscjd2004 If you're referring to it being taught in English classes, it is still worthy of study due to the imagery and the persuasiveness of it as a whole.
@fidelbogen Speak for yourself, my friend. My life is not the pit of depravity. I do not seek forgiveness for being born or for living. The belief that human existence is intrinsically evil is the very pit of depravity. It is a very degenerate, unproductive superstition and I'll have none of it.
@MightyCarnac I'm glad to hear that your life is not the pit of depravity, but speak for yourself. Then look at the life all around you these days. Yup, pit of depravity.
Oh, just for the record, I'm an atheist. So I guess that makes me "depraved" also....sort of! According to some, anyway.
@fidelbogen At least we don’t burn heretics anymore. With all the war & wmd in the world we're less likely to die of violence than at most periods of human of history – so say historians & anthropoligists. With all the poverty, disease, hunger average life span has never been higher. A greater proportion of people are healthier, better educated & more affluent than historical norms. As bad as things are the overall human condition has never been better. This ain't paradise but there's progress.
@MightyCarnac Nowadays, instead of burning heretics we let them run wild and spread their consequences -- which sometimes include redefining "heresy" and finally (not necessarily literally) burning YOU as an heretic. Yeah...the picture is tricky and complicated. If there was some way to measure the objective sum total of human misery from one era to the next, then I guess we'd have a benchmark for all of this.
Anyhow, we'll see where the roller coaster of history takes us next.
Thanks this made reading this Christian bullshit so much easier.
liamwazhere 4 months ago
These are the kinds of preachings we need in our world today.
ansahpatdon 1 year ago
Great Awakening? If that creepy nonsense is an example of awakening I'd rather stay asleep.
It's historically interesting though to look at how depraved colonial religion was.
MightyCarnac 1 year ago
@MightyCarnac I wish we had left this nonsense in our colonial infancy. It's still being preached to children. Should be against the damned law.
uscjd2004 8 months ago
@uscjd2004 If you're referring to it being taught in English classes, it is still worthy of study due to the imagery and the persuasiveness of it as a whole.
Kaydee815 5 months ago
@Kaydee815 Yes, it is a literary masterpiece. I thoroughly enjoy it.
fidelbogen 4 months ago
@MightyCarnac Today, our religion is not so depraved, but our lives are the very pit of depravity.
fidelbogen 4 months ago
@fidelbogen Speak for yourself, my friend. My life is not the pit of depravity. I do not seek forgiveness for being born or for living. The belief that human existence is intrinsically evil is the very pit of depravity. It is a very degenerate, unproductive superstition and I'll have none of it.
MightyCarnac 4 months ago
@MightyCarnac I'm glad to hear that your life is not the pit of depravity, but speak for yourself. Then look at the life all around you these days. Yup, pit of depravity.
Oh, just for the record, I'm an atheist. So I guess that makes me "depraved" also....sort of! According to some, anyway.
fidelbogen 4 months ago
@fidelbogen At least we don’t burn heretics anymore. With all the war & wmd in the world we're less likely to die of violence than at most periods of human of history – so say historians & anthropoligists. With all the poverty, disease, hunger average life span has never been higher. A greater proportion of people are healthier, better educated & more affluent than historical norms. As bad as things are the overall human condition has never been better. This ain't paradise but there's progress.
MightyCarnac 4 months ago
@MightyCarnac Nowadays, instead of burning heretics we let them run wild and spread their consequences -- which sometimes include redefining "heresy" and finally (not necessarily literally) burning YOU as an heretic. Yeah...the picture is tricky and complicated. If there was some way to measure the objective sum total of human misery from one era to the next, then I guess we'd have a benchmark for all of this.
Anyhow, we'll see where the roller coaster of history takes us next.
fidelbogen 4 months ago
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