(March 9, 2021 at 3:23 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: Funny how as a nonbeliever I don't hold Stalin, Pol Pot, or Mao as moral authority to be emulated or admired. It's almost as if their actions were a failing of themselves and their individual views rather than an issue with nonbelief. And just about every religious "relationship" is either toxic authoritarianism or absenteeism.
Well put. I was thinking about that recently too, how obedience and faith seem to be much more important than independence and choice in some repressive religions.