Religion gives terms, phrases, and structure to morals, it doesnt create it itself

I don’t need the Bible or commandments to know murder and envy is bad.

You have a god-given moral compass and your entire life is a miracle

The majority of it is nurture - what you see and are taught.

Religion can be the catalyst of that for sure

If you are basing your entire morality on religion, you don’t *actually* possess morality, you are just instructed that you will be punished for not following the rules.

facts

only thing stopping me from mass murder is religion

lmao

Religion and philosophy can coexist, see Aquinas.

Like for real, Sodom and Gomarrah were steeped and mired in sin, murder, homosexuality, devil worship.

They can definitely co-exist

>religion <:exPepeLaugh:610575316976533505>

I'm a practicing Mormon. Our pioneers got double penetrated by the feds on the regular, so they loaded up their guns and moved west so they could keep tearing it up. That resonates with me 🙏

I mean the feds horribly mistreated the LDS community

And they totally should. Power to them.

Their religion is still a cult tho

What religion isn't a cult?

The only difference between a religion and a cult is public acceptance and number of followers.

Like, 1/3 of them?

my dad's ex-mormon, my uncle is a mormon bishop. i will respect mormons themselves and their practice, but the organization of the LDS is absolutely a cult.

buuut

Much of the time its populism epitomized

this can be said for almost every major religion

they all get extremely culty

There are lots of *religions* that aren’t cults. But most religious *organizations* are absolutely cults

religion is fine, organized religion can suck my dick.

pop·u·lism
/ˈpäpyəˌlizəm/
a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

This is good

Same with Shriners and stuff.

If a man thinks murder is okay and actually enjoys it and he enjoys rape and pillage and it doesn’t go against his code, it’s okay for him. Pedos think fucking kids is okay, it isn’t wrong to them. Some think they have the right to tyrannically oppress others, who can what is right or wrong except God? God lays the foundation, men pervert it. “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” comes to mind.

Real Mormons still get DPed on the regular

LOL

ayyyy polygamy joke i get it

Joke, yes.

Although I was more referring to the Waco-like tactics on display at the YFZ ranch etc

but yeah i personally know people of most major religions. the organized part of all of them suck dick.

God establishes nothing in my life, and yet I don’t fuck kids. Check mate, all powerful believer

And Finicum (Odin rest his soul)

He gave you life and established you, reverse check mate.

For me, there can be Mormon cult members and normal Mormons in the same congregation. You can practice the religion without worshipping the leaders and worshipping a certain lifestyle