RE: The Religious Void
January 8, 2021 at 4:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2021 at 4:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's a big if. It can be easy to see that (and specifically how) some forms of religion are, have been, or would inevitably be harmful. Less so to insist that harm is a rule of religiousity.
Not that asserting that as a rule would settle any debates, ofc - we'd still have acceptable harm to contend with. I'd say that whenever two hands are religiously doing something good that would otherwise be engaged in religiously doing something shitty - we can chalk whatever lesser amount of misery that puts into the world as, to at least some extent, the value of that religious endeavor.
If knitting me a blanket kept grabby mc fingers off my daughter, I'd insist his ass was knitting at all times he was within a few feet of her. It would be my religion. I would make it his religion, at least so long as he wanted to be within feet of my daughter. He wants a bride, I want a blanket. Fair trade. I'm a big guy..it might take him a few years. No shitty blankets need apply, unless he thinks my daughter is trash.
Not that asserting that as a rule would settle any debates, ofc - we'd still have acceptable harm to contend with. I'd say that whenever two hands are religiously doing something good that would otherwise be engaged in religiously doing something shitty - we can chalk whatever lesser amount of misery that puts into the world as, to at least some extent, the value of that religious endeavor.
If knitting me a blanket kept grabby mc fingers off my daughter, I'd insist his ass was knitting at all times he was within a few feet of her. It would be my religion. I would make it his religion, at least so long as he wanted to be within feet of my daughter. He wants a bride, I want a blanket. Fair trade. I'm a big guy..it might take him a few years. No shitty blankets need apply, unless he thinks my daughter is trash.
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