RE: History of abolishing God from the society
February 25, 2022 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2022 at 5:32 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 25, 2022 at 2:21 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: God lost authority in politics - it was considered that bishops had all the answers from their holy books on how to run a country, but now with humanism, it is considered that human feelings are the most important. So you have the voter deciding what is best for the people and you don't ask God or the Pope. You go to each human and ask him or her what they want.
It would be lovely if any country in the world worked this way.
In the US, human feelings are far from the most important things. Corporate profits trump human feelings. It has been shown that the will of the people has no influence on Congress, because only those things pushed by the rich become law.
You don't ask each human what they want. They want universal health care, and they'll never get it.
Quote:Ever since Marcel Duchamp in 1917 took a urinal and proclaimed it as art, people consider art to be subjective, that if you think something is beautiful and are willing to pay for it, then there is no authority to tell you that you are wrong.
People don't think Duchamp's urinal is beautiful. He did it as a joke to show that the new authority in the art world (curators, dealers, critics) act as an authority that can tell normal people what they should be looking at.
Quote:God out of ethics and morality - in the past, people went to the priest and asked him what is good and he would tell them "Homosexuality is bad because God says it is bad, or the pope says so." Nobody cared what people thought. But today, people don't care for what God says, or the Bible, or the Pope. What is authority today is what people think and feel. Now, there are some harder ethical questions that need further discussion, but they are all centered around human feelings and thoughts, no one takes out the Bible and looks at what the divine commandments say.
The Marquess of Queensberry, who provoked the court case against Oscar Wilde as a sodomite, which ruined his life, was an outspoken atheist.
Are all ethical questions centered around human feelings? I'm going to need some evidence for that.
Quote:God out of education - people were used to be educated on what God supposedly thinks so that they project that into the society, but today people are educated to think for themselves because thinking for yourself to know what you want is the highest part of the authority in a democracy.
Today we are propagandized within an inch of our lives by corporations. Nobody is taught to think for himself, we just have different evil people filling our heads with crap.
Political consent is manufactured by skilled manipulators. People are every bit as much sheep as they used to be.
If you want to be glad at religion's decline I understand. But that doesn't mean we live in the utopia you describe.
