(September 19, 2022 at 10:34 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I can imagine many useful side-effects of theism such as fostering community, providing a psychological way to deal with the unknowable, etc. I can also think of many bad side-effect of rigid dogma and intolerance. Secular ideologies also seem to have a religious feel to them, which would argue against my position but I do not see that as a major objection.Agreed. People sometimes wonder what the point of having an agent to bargain with is, if the agent is non existent...but it's the bargaining itself that's important to us.
Quote:Not that I have a dog in the fight of proving that theism somehow spares one from misery. As I see Chrisitianity, the believers paths is often towards hardship and suffering, as the lives of the Saints demonstrate. For this reason, I would not try to sell religion on the notion that your life will be more pleasant. Far from...
Trouble is, that's a bad pitch. Why the "blessed are those who feel like shit" - needed to be rewritten in the red letters in magic book from one story to the next. We end up with "Blessed are those that..like..do decent social work for the poor and stuff".
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