RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 12, 2020 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2020 at 9:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Fantasy can help us to contextualize our reality in meaningfully factually ways - and since we're on the subject (of fantasy, lol)... perhaps the reason that we haven't heard from the christian god in 2k years is that he learned his lesson in much the same way that we do - by fucking up.
He wanted something so bad that he botched it, and following his example, christians have been fucking up ever since in precisely the same way.
It's difficult to imagine the shame that a competent moral agent would feel at being the source of all that, though we can look at earthly (and far smaller) examples of the same type of decision - examples that this thread is full of, to get some idea.
He wanted something so bad that he botched it, and following his example, christians have been fucking up ever since in precisely the same way.
It's difficult to imagine the shame that a competent moral agent would feel at being the source of all that, though we can look at earthly (and far smaller) examples of the same type of decision - examples that this thread is full of, to get some idea.
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