RE: There are no "Religions of peace".....
March 19, 2019 at 1:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2019 at 1:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Religion informs peoples expectations and frames their experience. Insomuch as a religion informs some shitty expectation and frames subsequent experience in a detrimental way, it's a contributing factor to any end product of nastiness. We could always suggest that there were other factors, but this is just a kid pointing at his friends and saying "but timmy hit him too, mom".
Conceptually, it works the same way for any positive outcome attributable to a persons religion.
The trouble is in isolating some positive thing unique to any religion, whereas a given religions specific shittiness is among the set of known knowns.
So, for example, any monotheist who justifies their shittiness by reference to someone else's polytheism is expressing a gripe that requires their monotheism, whereas the same monotheist laying claim to positive outcomes has the polytheists ability to produce those same outcomes to contend with. In this, polytheism is intrinscally more inclusive than monotheism, and while there is a range of nasty and nice things shared between them, there is a range of shitty things that is solely possessed by the zealous monotheist.
Or, you know, the short version is "a history of the world since the assumption of monotheism", lol. We kindof went off the rails in the transition from monolatry to where we are now as a product of fanatics doing what fanatics will invariably do. In our defence, and echoing my previous statements, it's not as if there aren't powerful motivators compelling the respective monolatristic camps into the actions we've seen.
Conceptually, it works the same way for any positive outcome attributable to a persons religion.
The trouble is in isolating some positive thing unique to any religion, whereas a given religions specific shittiness is among the set of known knowns.
So, for example, any monotheist who justifies their shittiness by reference to someone else's polytheism is expressing a gripe that requires their monotheism, whereas the same monotheist laying claim to positive outcomes has the polytheists ability to produce those same outcomes to contend with. In this, polytheism is intrinscally more inclusive than monotheism, and while there is a range of nasty and nice things shared between them, there is a range of shitty things that is solely possessed by the zealous monotheist.
Or, you know, the short version is "a history of the world since the assumption of monotheism", lol. We kindof went off the rails in the transition from monolatry to where we are now as a product of fanatics doing what fanatics will invariably do. In our defence, and echoing my previous statements, it's not as if there aren't powerful motivators compelling the respective monolatristic camps into the actions we've seen.
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