I say that myself quite a bit, but i typically am not using the same reasons many people who live around me do.

Given a half of my family, many say it because they really wont do anything else, not because ut works fine.

What is deistic world view?

I’m a Christian, according to Christ, he rebuked the Pharisees and Sadducees because they had forsaken the Commandments of God in favor of their traditions of the Elders.

Deistic means you believe in a creator, not necessarily God or Christ.

He also wiped out entire cities and the world for not bowing to everything he said much like a tyrant does

^^^^^ why I am not religious

It's morals.

Far from a believer in a higher power, but not religious

and ethics

For living in sin and disobeying the 10 commandments and killing others.

Morals define murder.

I genuinely can’t comprehend how anyone could pick up an abrahamic/biblical text and genuinely find them to be compelling enough to base their entire world view on

Clearly I don't think everyone has to believe in a God. But religion defines morals. Without it, what is good, and what is bad?

Aristotle

Common sense

Definitions, reciprocity, and general feelings

@minorthreat I could only wonder why he did that, have you even read Genesis?

Religion is completely unnecessary to establish morality

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.