From our "That never works" files: When the religious try to demand that we submit to their authoritah

A few examples of what I'm talking about:

Christianity:

• "Jesus says..."

• "The Bible says..."

Nichirensplainers:

• "Nichiren says..."

SGIsplainers:

• "Dr. Ikeda says..."

The religious zealots always go into a conflict situation (including differences of opinion) with the confidence that they are right about everything, with the feeling of superiority that leads them to expect everyone else to automatically agree with them (because superiority = authority = the right to settle every disagreement and ultimately make the decision that is necessarily binding on everyone else).

And they always seem perplexed when the non-religious (or non-THEIR-religion believers) aren't in the slightest impressed with their religion-based arguments and WON'T agree with them! The non-religious either dismiss these religion-based claims out-of-hand as irrelevant or even laugh at how stupid it is to rely on something so inapplicable, so out of date and/or culturally irrelevant, when you want others to take you seriously and ultimately agree with you. Especially when you're asking others to take YOUR word for it instead of trusting their own personal experience or their own lyin' eyes!

When someone does NOT share your beliefs, including accepting your authority figure as authoritative, it's stupid to try and use it/him as "evidence" that your position is "right". If that's all you have, if that's your best argument in favor of your position, it proves that you're WRONG, in fact. And you deserve to be laughed right out of the room. NO ONE is going to take you seriously.

This is why the religious have such a problem with reality - it won't play along with the rules they want to impose on it and everything else.