(June 15, 2016 at 11:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: While government and religion can be similar in some ways, and overlap in many ways, and while people may be said to be religiously devoted to their government or system of government- they aren't the same thing.The theistic element seems to differentiate religion from other systems such as governments. And yet, throughout history governments have often justified their right to rule by appealing to religious authority. At times even claiming to have its own authority directly from some god.
If you and I got an apartment and make rules for each other to follow out of whatever reason..say mutual respect or shared fiscal liability, when we organize.. this is the core of government. I doubt you'd call that situation a religion. Ever had a roommate? Was it jesus? Probably, and probably not, amiright?
If religion were just a belief system involving the worship of a god who is outside this world, why are theists so politically aggressive.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.