RE: Islam
July 14, 2020 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2020 at 10:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 14, 2020 at 9:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Over centuries the arc of religion bends ever so slightly towards humanism.
Society does that. Religion opposes it as an effect of cultural conservatism. The list of major religions alive today is an effect of radical propositions made to society in their time and place - which helps to move the chains, but becomes the new orthodoxy and the new target for conservatism at whatever point it manages to position itself as an authority.
In the broader view humanist principles-as-effect are probably bound up in human beings becoming more competent in the world, more capable of actualizing our wishes and desires and more resolved to solve our remaining problems in the same nose to the ground way we've solved so many before.
From the other angle, we do notice that humanist leanings tend to wash away when a society fails, when it's members become less competent, less capable...more frustrated and, ultimately, desperate.
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