RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
December 8, 2021 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2021 at 1:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People are still bombing abortion clinics. The good old bad days didn't end in 1692. The ancient argument between christianity and witchcraft has never been anything more or other than a dispute between service providers, a culture war front.
Personally, I think that any religion that amounts to live and let live is..at least.... a good religion..even if the articles of that faith aren't..strictly or factually speaking...true. The value of liberal religion to authoritarian religion is that of a trojan horse. There's a split in my opinion of the next part, between those who see shitty religion as counterintuitive and those who see shitty religion as the predictable winners in any unregulated economic competition between motivated actors. People who don't understand why anyone would go through the trouble of inventing and ensconcing a shitty religion that will, inevitably, be used as a cudgel against it's own disseminators...and people who understand that the least scrupulous actors are destined to win in such a scenario barring unbelievable circumstance.
I'm in the latter camp. I see it, that, on the one hand, it's ludicrous to build a weapon to be used against you..but..on the other hand, that people in economic spaces who build weapons generally outcompete people who don't. What ends up happening is that the weapons manufacturers succeed in the short term to the detriment of everyone's long term - even their own. A veritable gordian knot. Theistic belief never has lead and can never lead to anything other than human misery...but, at the same time, theistic belief is a pretty good weapon against those human miseries that might be inflicted inflicted upon you...by others....in the immediate sense of the concern.
Personally, I think that any religion that amounts to live and let live is..at least.... a good religion..even if the articles of that faith aren't..strictly or factually speaking...true. The value of liberal religion to authoritarian religion is that of a trojan horse. There's a split in my opinion of the next part, between those who see shitty religion as counterintuitive and those who see shitty religion as the predictable winners in any unregulated economic competition between motivated actors. People who don't understand why anyone would go through the trouble of inventing and ensconcing a shitty religion that will, inevitably, be used as a cudgel against it's own disseminators...and people who understand that the least scrupulous actors are destined to win in such a scenario barring unbelievable circumstance.
I'm in the latter camp. I see it, that, on the one hand, it's ludicrous to build a weapon to be used against you..but..on the other hand, that people in economic spaces who build weapons generally outcompete people who don't. What ends up happening is that the weapons manufacturers succeed in the short term to the detriment of everyone's long term - even their own. A veritable gordian knot. Theistic belief never has lead and can never lead to anything other than human misery...but, at the same time, theistic belief is a pretty good weapon against those human miseries that might be inflicted inflicted upon you...by others....in the immediate sense of the concern.
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