-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.28 Aug 2004

I thought lobotmised people just wobbled around the place feeling happy. Some people think comfort is just the lack of grief, so they would disagree with the idea that lobotomised people feel no comfort. Anyway, my point was that I don't envy religious people, even if I feel grief, because, like you, I don't share their faith, and it seems silly to envy someone who is comforted by a belief that you think is cobblers. If you were an antelope fleeing from a hungry lion, would you envy a passing ostrich who had stuck its head in the sand? Of course the ostrich may not be as terrified as you, and you're right to envy the state of not being terrified, but to envy the ostrich itself is folly indeed! Praying to Vishnu to heal your wife's buttock cancer may make you think she'll be alright, but it isn't going to do anything about the buttock. You might think religion has done good by giving such people hope, but it is that very aspect of it which can prevent people from trying to find actual solutions to their problems. Rather than relying on Vishnu to heal the buttock cancers of this world, why not spend millions of dollars on research into this terrible, and debilitating disease?