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- colin_s6
While organized religion, like any and all institutions of power in the modern age, can go fuck itself, i will say that as I've aged having the idea of a communal set of beliefs that exists beyond the sociopolitical (i.e. any of the -isms there) ... a moral sense of joy and peace and a way to deal with the tragic mechanics of this world ... I dunno.
It just goes to show how fucked up people are that these organizations that proclaim peace and love contribute so much to segregation and violence. Because it truly is an important and wonderful idea, the idea of love as a way of social inspiration.
- Carrot and stick.i_monk
- I hear what you’re saying. +1. Personally, I think people can get along without requiring faith in gods, but a strict book of rules is dangerously short sightedmonospaced
- The community part you’re referring to is cool. I even joined in on church group activities. But that had nothing to do with shared beliefs in godmonospaced
- What I saw was just a good community effort to build community and relationships. And that is typically a church effort. Faith FELT secondary.monospaced
- I feel the God narrative is because humans would never obey a moral authority written by another human-which is why a central doctrine is difficult to findcolin_s
- "Christ figures" can be followed but in the end subjected to public opinion as all humans are - God changes the narrative by ironically removing absolutescolin_s
- Well shit. I’m the opposite. I wouldn’t follow a credo NOT written by a man. Claiming supernatural origins only makes me more skeptical. NATURALLY.monospaced
- @mono I bet AI will write the next onecolin_s
- that's ridiculousmonospaced
- First Church of the Singularity.i_monk