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by MeImCounting
920 days ago
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Religions as an excuse- in the past it was to justify genocide and sexual repression, today its used to justify genocide and sexual repression. Yet somehow people still claim religious moral guidelines are somehow useful or good. Look some of the great thinkers were religious, and christian and muslim and hindu and jewish philosophy used to be the best approximation of what we now know as science and rationality. We are standing on the shoulders of folks like Aquinas, Al-Khwarizmi, Aryabhata, Maimonides and others but we now know more than they did in basically every way. Why their moral stances would still hold up is beyond me. Maybe because people are still attached to the power over others that these "ethical" norms give them. |
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Like, I am not trying to defend religion because it holds some special place in my heart, because it doesn’t, i am entirely non-religious. But looking at how Soviet Union did all those terrible things and more, while explicitly cracking down on religion and essentially prohibiting most of it (with a bunch of gulaging and murders, just to speed up the process a bit), I don’t think religion on itself is the problem.
> people still claim religious moral guidelines are somehow useful or good.
I mean, if one cites religion as their source of inspiration and encouragement for doing good things and being kind to other people, who am I to interfere? Sure, we can muse on the fact that good morals and kindness shouldn’t come from a belief in some deity or holy books. Ultimately, as long as someone is doing good things, I don’t really care whether they draw their inspiration to so from a religion or some charitable person in real life or an episode of spongebob squarepants. Whatever is helping them cope with the reality of living in a way that makes lives of those around them better.