Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: June 29, 2025, 6:58 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
(April 1, 2022 at 11:17 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Well, satori aside, it's like the scene from the Incredibles which I posted in response to Neo where Syndrome says, "When everyone is super.... no one will be." Religion seems to require the sacred. Sacred literally means set apart. If there is nothing separating the phenomenon and the mundane, then how can it be sacred?

In context, I was talking about the possibility some kinds of meaning (like the principle of non-contradiction) could be essential aspects of reality and the danger of sucummbing to the false binary that either everything is meaningfull or nothing at all has meaning, similar to the way eliminative materialists do not have room in their theory of mind for mind. As it relates to this conversation, I do think there is a danger in going too far in reading too much into a text and making up stories only tangetaly suggested by circumstances. Accepting the possibility of erring is part of the risk, not a reason to not try.
<insert profound quote here>
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism? - by Neo-Scholastic - April 5, 2022 at 1:27 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Is Satan better than God? Disagreeable 37 4907 January 31, 2022 at 3:37 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Is religion simply more about control than a god? GODZILLA 24 4262 January 8, 2019 at 11:58 am
Last Post: Drich
  I am a better person than God! chimp3 56 13464 May 24, 2018 at 1:07 am
Last Post: chimp3
  I am better than God! chimp3 24 5986 September 26, 2016 at 8:53 am
Last Post: brewer
  Creationists are better than inconsistent Christians orangedude 14 2684 April 27, 2016 at 12:26 pm
Last Post: Drich
  Religion hurts homosexuality but homosexuality kills religion? deleteduser12345 43 13737 March 30, 2016 at 2:46 am
Last Post: robvalue
  Terrorism has no religion but religion brings terrorism. Islam is NOT peaceful. bussta33 13 6096 January 16, 2016 at 8:25 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Study: Terrorists are motivated by Politics more than Religion Heat 23 5672 December 19, 2015 at 10:28 am
Last Post: abaris
  Christian Fundamentalism vis a vis Muslim Fundamentalism Rhondazvous 12 2984 November 1, 2015 at 9:33 am
Last Post: Rhondazvous
  Religion's affect outside of religion Heat 67 23690 September 28, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Last Post: TheRocketSurgeon



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)