(October 23, 2016 at 11:56 am)jebus Wrote:(October 23, 2016 at 4:57 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Religion survives with all its corruption only because its postures itself as a guide on how to become less greedy and lustful and become a more compassionate person. Its the core. If you think that your living a noble/right/caring life, then what religious doctrine is behind it and especially scientific evidence dont matter at all. Because your living a "perfect life".
In conclusion, blind faith is supported in average sane religious person by noble motives, which legitimize the whole doctrine. And I agree with sane believers, compassion is really painful to accept and "sin" is what keeps me going.
I bet they got the morality from war times. at first they were persecuted by romans then came the dark ages. but after the industrial revolution it lost all substance, because people become moral in their search for progress.
The "persecution" by Rome was largely a post hoc invention by the church, at the point where it had become Rome's state religion, for two reasons a) the 'would they die for a lie?" myth and, b) to give the church a justification for the, very real, persecution of pagans in the Empire.
Yes, christians were often killed and quite gruesomely, but it is only under Diocletian that it was state policy and that they were killed in higher than expected numbers. Pagan Rome was very tolerant of religious diversity as long as you performed the sacrifices to the state/emperor regularly (these were more akin to the modern oath of alleigance than declarations of religious worship).
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