RE: Religions Role in Social Movements, Essential or Accidental?
October 3, 2018 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2018 at 11:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@OP Q
I'd say accidental, as accidental as a persons religion often is..even. We might notice, for example..that any type of social movement a person might reference has played out in many cultures with many religions, and also in demographics constrained by their lack of religion.
If religion were essential, atheists would not be included. If a specific religion were essential, we would not find a plurality of belief. So we have three broad categories of people all doing the same things.
I suspect that this has alot to do with the way that we drape our mundane concerns with the banner of divinity. That a god wills something only matters to believers, and even further only to believers in -that- god (and this is a far more specific qualifier than someone simply identifying themselves as a christian, for example..since not all christians agree on a given issue).
Those reasons beyond the will of a specific god are what appeals to the other two categories -and- the beliving set, simultaneously...and it's upon those reasons common to us all that some thing x stands or falls. Those, are the essential reasons. If a christian and a pagan decide upon something for reasons that an atheist can accept...you could switch out the faith of either believer and with respect to the item in question..nothing will have changed. Nor, for that matter, if you swapped either or both out for one or two more atheists.
I'd say accidental, as accidental as a persons religion often is..even. We might notice, for example..that any type of social movement a person might reference has played out in many cultures with many religions, and also in demographics constrained by their lack of religion.
If religion were essential, atheists would not be included. If a specific religion were essential, we would not find a plurality of belief. So we have three broad categories of people all doing the same things.
I suspect that this has alot to do with the way that we drape our mundane concerns with the banner of divinity. That a god wills something only matters to believers, and even further only to believers in -that- god (and this is a far more specific qualifier than someone simply identifying themselves as a christian, for example..since not all christians agree on a given issue).
Those reasons beyond the will of a specific god are what appeals to the other two categories -and- the beliving set, simultaneously...and it's upon those reasons common to us all that some thing x stands or falls. Those, are the essential reasons. If a christian and a pagan decide upon something for reasons that an atheist can accept...you could switch out the faith of either believer and with respect to the item in question..nothing will have changed. Nor, for that matter, if you swapped either or both out for one or two more atheists.
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