Message from @banestrum
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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
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
Humans are fallable. Such is the world.
Then get the bible belt off their asses and burn these heretics
@M4Gunner Yes but you can have faith in concepts or things or people
Instead of the most minimalistic idea possible
Faith in people is stupid.
Faith in people creates idiology of people like hitler or stalin
And those work themselves out
People are inherently greedy and always want more for themselves
*Work themselves out*