Life Driven Purpose by Dan Barker

Author:Dan Barker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
Published: 2015-02-17T22:00:00+00:00

Religious Color Blindness

I think cultural color blindness is evident in religion. When I talk about my journey from evangelical preacher to atheist, I often say that fundamentalists have binary brains. Not all believers are that extreme, of course, but all fundamentalists are absolutists. To the righteous mind, there is no middle ground. Everything is right or wrong, true or false, good or evil. Jesus reportedly said, “I wish you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.” To the true believer, there is no warmth, no gray area. It is all black and white.

But now I think I can say it better: fundamentalists have polarized brains. The difference between black and white is not gray: it is a color spectrum. Their world is monochromatic, not black-and-white. They don’t perceive the rich colors of life within the rainbow.

The prophet Jeremiah complained that there are “foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.” Jesus reportedly said, “Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear?” They admit that it is possible to perceive without perceiving, but I think they were writing about themselves. They are the ones who are spewing distasteful colors out of their mouths.

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