I'm sorry to hear that

Gandhi was a man, who had some wise insight. I don't care how horrible he wqs because I do not follow him as an example. I do take his wisdom though.

he was a pedophile for starters

mentlegen

and he helped instigate the war between India and Pakistan

But yeah. Religion murders and kills, and drives families to betray each other. The power dynamic is too prone to abuse.

My mother would not be an orphan and would have a brother if not for fucking Radio Church of God

And might not have been so mentally and physically abused.

Religion also organizes society to realize greater modes of thought and understanding

It can, but so can other things.

I mean it's easy to criticize the dead and buried on top of the mountain which their deeds built

Religion forgets itself because it prohibits questioning.

much of democracy around the world comes from judeo-christian principles

It doesn't think to restrain itself, because it isn't allowed to judge.

religion does not prohibit questioning idk why you think that

that's not a component of religion, that's a human component

It absolutely does. That is the root of religion.

An idea that is absolutely true and cannot be false, ever.

So everything can be rationalized or ignored.

no, the root of religion is to presently act as if something is true, to prove that it is cumulatively true

that's all there is to it

and there's no part of that logic that requires a lack of questioning

you just have to continue the act

Your world must be nice as fuck dude.

What I have seen highlights the structure that religion, at least organkzed religion, creates and necessitates.

I mean, one of the areas of humanity that becomes polluted with dogma, is language. And so I like to defend the principles of language to be as pure as possible, because it serves no more useful purpose otherwise.

to do something religiously, does not mean you cannot question the purpose behind what you are doing, those concepts are no co-dependent in any way

I gave a philosophy thesis/presentation on that topic.

I say thesis but it was more like detailed research, no experiments

idk what cult you were born into but the Vicar that handles Sunday school when I was forced to go was absolutely happy to have his faith questioned

he would discuss it like a rational adult

Ask him if it can be wrong.

yes I'll just go back in time 20 years

hold on

it's a trick

I'll wait, get me some vintage wine too so I can scam people

you shouldn't have to wait for a time-traveller <:think_madpepe:378717098630971395>

He might have used the method that removes him from this universe to place him into a differnt one, and yet another one when he returns.

And so it is possible that Turtboi came back with my wine, but in a different reality.

he said, and I quote; "who is this faggot to judge the entirety of religion based on his own personal poor experience"

that reminds me of when Zelda used her witch powers to snatch Link from another time-line, to save her time-line, and that other timeline just got fucked