Absolutely

It's like relying on a calculator

Great crutch, totally functional, but when you leave it at home you're fucked

I think that certain religious ideas are based on real observations

Those are the best ones

and this stuff was written a long time ago, and they used the symbolism and old style language, so i think it's really important to study it hard if you are serious about it. people who saw a cartoon vhs of noahs ark, and nothing else, isnt a good representation of the essence of the teaching

The thing with religions. The only ones that survibe take from their prior types. So the *morality would die when you lose your religion* is a falsity

And since the western world laws are written based off this. Even the athiestic are forced to observe said morality

@Deleted User I'm totally fine with symbolism and shit, working the brain is good

Religion has always been about explaining the unexplained

also if they are based in true observations, those teachings would reemerge @Goblin_Slayer_Floki

I have no respect for generic american Protestantism, though. More of a lack of belief than actual belief

It gives humans a teather to keep from fearing everything

"We should all be nice to each other" is not an impressive or insightful revelation

it was at one point

we take it for granted now

true ^

@banestrum but before it the world was far more chaotic

It was annoying even back in the 1800s, but at least it seemed to be legitimate belief

eye for an eye used to be great too

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki And now we drown in our own human excess, what an improvement

Because most of the moralities have been abandoned

no

before it was eye for **YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY**

avoiding excess was one of those

The adherence to them is more slavish than ever but the understanding is minimal

@M4Gunner easy to be a glutton, to easy

It's like giving an autist a gun and a badge and telling him to enforce curfew

You KNOW he's going to shoot someone

I want the hard route

ain't that the truth

Give me the suffering

I guess it's hard to go through life believing nothing

I'm not religious or anything, but it seems like lying to yourself to just hope for the best and smile all the time

Also stupid

Thats why even those who abandon faith replace it with faith in something else

Yeah, but faith in nothing is fucking dumb

Or something so ephemeral that it might as well be swamp gas

Yes but blind faith in humans is also dumb

Being nice to people is not a religion, no matter how much we dress it up

oh dear God, please purge the cancer