I had numerous disagreements with religious people and pretty much all of them would use the "You shouldn't be latched on to the material things in this world..." argument. Here is my well thought out rebuttle to this stupid and flawed idea:
The whole argument of being invested in material things is first and foremost a big flaming contradiction. Religious people say we should not be invested in our material things and we should worry more about the afterlife, everything material means nothing blah blah blah... basically anything that fits the theme of not loving material things.
These people are wrong because they require material things in order to be religious effectively. For Christians they require, clothing, jesus juice, stale christ, paper for their bibles, wood for their crosses, gold for their religious jewlery and Mercedes for their religious leaders. The same can be said for Jews, they have a corner on the white shirts and black suits market, they need their four cornered garments with tassels, prayer shauls made of wool, leather for their phylactery (tefilin), parchment for their torah, wood for their ark for their torah, wine, bread, grape juice, head covers and wigs for their married women, beannies for their bald spots etc...
The list goes on, the fucking point is how can these idiots argue that you shouldn't be invested in material things when they themselves use it for worship? Hence it is a big red flag in the contadiction department.
It always comes back to the same thing, do what you want to be comfortable during your short stay on earth. I think Louie C.K. said it best when he said something to the effect of "There are a lot more dead people than there are live people and they have been dead a lot longer than any person who is alive." So if believing in an invisible father figure gets you through the short 50 to 110 years you might live, then great cause you are going to die anyhow.
Death is absolute and guaranteed so... Enjoy!
The whole argument of being invested in material things is first and foremost a big flaming contradiction. Religious people say we should not be invested in our material things and we should worry more about the afterlife, everything material means nothing blah blah blah... basically anything that fits the theme of not loving material things.
These people are wrong because they require material things in order to be religious effectively. For Christians they require, clothing, jesus juice, stale christ, paper for their bibles, wood for their crosses, gold for their religious jewlery and Mercedes for their religious leaders. The same can be said for Jews, they have a corner on the white shirts and black suits market, they need their four cornered garments with tassels, prayer shauls made of wool, leather for their phylactery (tefilin), parchment for their torah, wood for their ark for their torah, wine, bread, grape juice, head covers and wigs for their married women, beannies for their bald spots etc...
The list goes on, the fucking point is how can these idiots argue that you shouldn't be invested in material things when they themselves use it for worship? Hence it is a big red flag in the contadiction department.
It always comes back to the same thing, do what you want to be comfortable during your short stay on earth. I think Louie C.K. said it best when he said something to the effect of "There are a lot more dead people than there are live people and they have been dead a lot longer than any person who is alive." So if believing in an invisible father figure gets you through the short 50 to 110 years you might live, then great cause you are going to die anyhow.
Death is absolute and guaranteed so... Enjoy!
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