(November 1, 2017 at 1:02 pm)alpha male Wrote: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-mi...2017-10-20
Quote:Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology
Bottom line Alpha times change. I no more like newer woo than I like old woo.
It may surprise you as much of a hard time as I give you, I don't even like atheists attempts to create "Satanist" churches. They'd argue that it is not the same thing which is absurd to me knowing the word itself has long and ancient roots, and all they really are doing is simply looking at the bad behaviors of the past and creating a new moral code to compete with old ideas.
I've had pantheist and new age co workers, and while I do see attempts to reject the past in an attempt to be more inclusive now as a way to compete, I still have a problem with even this new trend.
They are ditching old religions because of the tribalism and bigotry. But in creating new beliefs, that also has the risk long term as becoming just as dogmatic and tribal centuries from now.
It should not even surprise anyone reading this, if in 500 years there is a Yoda religion or Star Trek religion or Harry Potter religion.
They are not looking for excuses to do bad things, they are rejecting the tribalism of the past, and while that is well intended, they are still suffering the same bad logic as antiquity. New or old, humans never consider that our morality isn't being handed to us, but already in us, and as secular as a new club may claim to be, it is still needlessly creating a moral list instead of valuing common law for everyone.
I attended a Unitarian Church in Lynchburg Va, we had liberal Christians, conservative Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, and atheists and even a lady who believed in the Egyptian God Isis. I am not kidding. They were all nice people, but no matter how much I liked them, it didn't mean they had evidence for their claims.
So when you talk about new trends, I don't treat those any differently than the claims of antiquity. I simply see that as mundane human behavior of trying to invent a new utopia on an imperfect planet.
I have LITERALLY argued with atheists claiming to be "Satanists" and had them get upset with me when I tell them they don't need it. I am not talking about their legal rights, I am talking about them having a naked assertion regardless of if they think their interpretation does not include a spirit character. It is still to me trying to re invent the wheel, when our species behavior good or bad have always been in our genes.
Point is, old or new, no label has a patent on doing good or bad, and all this means is that humans compete to set themselves up as being more special than others.
