Gimmeabreakman wrote:Why do you care about the religion's perspective? Are you religious yourself?
If we take Christianity as a basis and we count the old testament as well, basically no living christian follows their religions.
I used to be religious. I just have this approach to things that if I'm doing something, I'm doing it whole-heartedly and without fault. So in my opinion, if you choose to brand yourself as a follower of Christ/Buddha/Flying Spaghetti Monster, you should be doing everything you can to listen to your Buddha and do what he says he wants you to do.
Christianity is a very old religion and naturally it will be full of contradictions and nonsensical elements, but I would expect a Christian to at the very least follow the ten commandments and other essentials. If your god says "don't kill", don't go around killing people. You know, just have basic respect for the religion you claim to follow. If you don't care enough to follow the rules, don't claim to be a follower.
I'm not talking here about things like the Spanish inquisition, it was just a political move. I mean the blind hypocrites who genuinely believe themselves to be pious when they're not.
I guess it's connected with what Midwinter said, that stupidity is morally wrong. To be precise I think that being ignorant and refusing to learn is 'morally wrong'. Especially when people are pointing things out to you, and you cover your ears singing "Lalala, I can't hear you over my delusions and stupidity".