RE: If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist
June 16, 2023 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2023 at 9:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There's a really interesting sideline to be had in that. Traditionally, one of the defining characteristics of a religion has been organized social services. This has become increasingly less important to the religions whose characteristics went into defining religion et al. In the us, the majority of self professing christians attend only on major holidays, or never at all. They probably still feel like they grew up christian.
-but lay that aside and think about what it means for religion in general, for what may or could amount to religion. Inclusive descriptions of religion always allowed for the possibility of things like humanism being religious. That there was no organized church or official cannon or routine social gathering was the psuedo-disqualifier in others. Now, humanitarianism has those things which might never have been demonstrative, and the same things are no longer a major component of the christian expression of faith.
-but lay that aside and think about what it means for religion in general, for what may or could amount to religion. Inclusive descriptions of religion always allowed for the possibility of things like humanism being religious. That there was no organized church or official cannon or routine social gathering was the psuedo-disqualifier in others. Now, humanitarianism has those things which might never have been demonstrative, and the same things are no longer a major component of the christian expression of faith.
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