RE: What do you fill relgion with?
February 10, 2017 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2017 at 6:54 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm)ThortheMighty Wrote: Without religion..there is a real void that needs to be filled.
There is? I hadn't noticed, myself.
(February 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm)ThortheMighty Wrote: Not even saying religion is good but it fills a void. It provides a community, a purpose larger than yourself.
It's all the other things that come packaged with it that're the problem. It's a negative feedback loop, a self-reinforcing echo chamber where grownups play at witches and wizards and nobody tells them it's not real.
(February 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm)ThortheMighty Wrote: I don't agree with all the Catholic Church teaches, but I do enjoy mass at some level and the social event it provides.
So keep the good things and throw away the bad. What's left, then, but a social club?
(February 9, 2017 at 4:20 pm)ThortheMighty Wrote: What do you fill an absence of religion with? Atheism itself does not seem enough
You're right, it doesn't. But then it's not meant to. It's been said that asking what replaces religion is like asking what kind of disease you want to replace the flu. Atheism, for me, is an adblocker, allowing me to go about my day without having Jesus spam popping up all the bloody time.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
