(December 21, 2018 at 1:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: A wee Google informs me that 'practice religion' is a perfectly acceptable phrase.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/practice
Boru
Imagine that, a dictionary that servers a mostly theist world would find it acceptable.
Again, what is to "practice"?
1. Ritual? Sure ok. And, people have different rituals on a planet of 7 billion.
2. Repeating words written in antiquity? Ok, again, 7 billion humans read different words.
How do these "practices" prove anything other than people mostly get sold the traditions of their parents and societies they are born into?
That isn't a "practice" that is following.
A trumpet player in Japan and a trumpet player in Italy or South America have to learn , even if not how to read music, at a minimum, repeat muscle memory training to get good enough as to not sound like crap. That takes practice.
A doctor has to go through anywhere from 8 years to 12 years of school to earn a medical licence. That takes practice.
If you want to end up in pro hockey, or pro football or pro soccer, again, that takes practice.
But you don't need a religion at all to be told not to harm anyone, that doesn't take practice, that is just our evolutionary empathy.
