RE: Preying on the vulnerable
April 7, 2021 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2021 at 9:09 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You are. Religion is just one expression of a trait ubiquitous to humanity. Religiosity a measure of how seriously we take intuitions common to our species.
If you believe a set of things are true about the scared and divine and taboo (or possess such an intuition), those beliefs are not going to evaporate just because you stopped believing in gods anymore than I am free of similar beliefs or intuitions on account of never having believed in them at all.
You may, I think, have more cause to be skeptical of those beliefs or intuitions than I, but only insomuch as and for however long it takes you to find some other way to express those truths apart from god or belief in god. We're all vulnerable this way, religions couldn't even help but to prey on the vulnerable this way. It's worth pointing out that if those assertions to truth ever had -any- value in a godless world, that value couldn't have been wrapped up in whether or not the pocket pixie existed in the first place.
If you believe a set of things are true about the scared and divine and taboo (or possess such an intuition), those beliefs are not going to evaporate just because you stopped believing in gods anymore than I am free of similar beliefs or intuitions on account of never having believed in them at all.
You may, I think, have more cause to be skeptical of those beliefs or intuitions than I, but only insomuch as and for however long it takes you to find some other way to express those truths apart from god or belief in god. We're all vulnerable this way, religions couldn't even help but to prey on the vulnerable this way. It's worth pointing out that if those assertions to truth ever had -any- value in a godless world, that value couldn't have been wrapped up in whether or not the pocket pixie existed in the first place.
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