“God Said So”

David Thompson ruminates on the phenomenon of believers being convinced that they are merely echoing what their particular deity meant, rather than using their deity as a label to justify their own prejudices. A common happenstance, I fear.

 

For a measure of understanding of this whole phenomenon, I advise the reading of Martin Rowson’s The Dog Allusion. A witty, and I feel, true, explanation that "rationally, the whole enterprise of religion is a monumental and faintly ridiculous waste of time and money. But then again, so is pet-keeping".

 

That’s as may be, but on the other hand, I don’t recall cat-owners embarking on an actual crusade against dog-owners, or the latter pronouncing death for apostates who renounce dogs in favour of goldfish. Apart from that, I think that Rowson hits the nail on the head.