I think the usefulness of any tool depends on the competence of those who wield it

It is too authoritarian and subversive, rejecting, for the most part, critical thinking.

and I think a lot of people just lost a lot of their common sense at some point in history

If your tool does not allow you to wonder if it is broken, then your tool is probably fucked now, or will be at some point.

And you will never know.

well don't go thinking dogma is just a problem with religion

It isnt

dogma exists in literally every human endeavor

I mean it *can* but I wouod not say it *does*.

and dogma isn't a core component of religion

it's a byproduct of people being people

It always seems to come with it, so my solution is simple. Get rid of the thing that is always bringing the other thing.

then you may as well get rid of science and philosophy, because they are also plagued with dogma

also economics

I don't think you can get rid of it but you get my point

Peopoe shoukd resist the subversion

yes but what I'm saying is don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

And if the baby wants to kill everyone?

religion is a specific tool, just like science and philosophy, and politics, and every other dimension of the human spirit

Except ots parents

and they all can produce dogma, and they all can become murderous

the Frankfurt School was not a religious school

Yes and look at Islam. It needs very badly to not exist, for the sake of my OWN existence.

Eugenics is not based on the foundation of a deity

any dimension of human pursuit can fall victim to ignorance and dogma

You make your own deity at that point, the ideal person.

and if you pick favorites then you are falling victim to your own personal dogma

Self defense is not dogma.

They literally listen to people that tell them that I need to die.

you believe something to be true even though you do not possess the capacity to know it, and even in defiance of evidence to the contrary

you can say it is in self defense, that doesn't change the fact

I am prepared to retaliate reciprocally. If they advocate my destruction, I shall advocate theirs. If they leave me alone, good, I don't care.

it's useful to say a gun is always loaded, but it's also more truthful to understand that as being subjective over realistic

I want them to quit talking about taking action against apostates. Because when one listens to the words of a religion, they tend to feel compelled to agree.

that's the line I draw in the sand between a religious belief and dogmatic belief

and yes Islam is a textbook example of a dogmatic political structure

Communism is also another example

When a religion goes into detail about HOW to kill me, I do not need convincing that it means it literally as a manual of operation.

Buddhists are weird but they tend to not kill many people, at least no more than we usually do already, so I don't care what they do.

although communism is more political than religious, it is still fully dogmatic

Depends on what you think religion is,