RE: The Religious Void
January 6, 2021 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2021 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OH..idk, it seems like the above is a more apt description of the faithful than of atheists. It is the faithful christian that believes that religion is a blanket of error thrown over the world - except for their own, ofc. They've gone to great lengths to demonstrate their conviction and the depths to which they'll lower themselves in service of that belief.
Philosophy, sociology, anthropology...all positively chocked with atheists doing brilliant work.
That people have conflated "religion" with the fundies that we're all familiar with is unfortunate - but wholly the responsibility of those fundies themselves. Do we believe that there is something which is sacred. Not in jest or sacred-like. Sacred. Inviolable - not practically, deontologically. Something that is true because we will make it so (sustainable or not). That the christian religion has attempted to confiscate and trademark such fundamental aspects of human nature and utterly poisoned that well, again, wholly the responsibility of the religious.
The crisis for christian belief in america today has little to do with any disagreement over an informal religion of americana. Theres no difference there, it's literally the same thing. It's of whether they, as people who follow more than one religion, will side with ceasar and mammon or the salvific message of christ. Christians are the first and most pernicious doubters of the latter.
Philosophy, sociology, anthropology...all positively chocked with atheists doing brilliant work.
That people have conflated "religion" with the fundies that we're all familiar with is unfortunate - but wholly the responsibility of those fundies themselves. Do we believe that there is something which is sacred. Not in jest or sacred-like. Sacred. Inviolable - not practically, deontologically. Something that is true because we will make it so (sustainable or not). That the christian religion has attempted to confiscate and trademark such fundamental aspects of human nature and utterly poisoned that well, again, wholly the responsibility of the religious.
The crisis for christian belief in america today has little to do with any disagreement over an informal religion of americana. Theres no difference there, it's literally the same thing. It's of whether they, as people who follow more than one religion, will side with ceasar and mammon or the salvific message of christ. Christians are the first and most pernicious doubters of the latter.
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