RE: The Spiritual Basis of The Republican Ideology
September 6, 2023 at 5:21 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2023 at 5:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
What's wrong with all people being equals regardless of any eye of any god? Think about this. If we're only equals in the eye of god..and there is no god - then we cannot be equals in that way. Equality is a lie, as expressed. As it so happens, it's never been the case in the history of god beliefs that everyone has been equal before them, anyway.
That makes for a rough setup. We've never actually been equal in the eyes of the various gods, and if those gods don't exist, we aren't even equal inasmuch as they described. Long story short, this is an absurdly bad foundation for human equality. I can't actually think of a worse one.
Why not premise the equality of human beings on something to do with human beings, which definitely do exist and are demonstrably similar in a great many ways.... rather than something to do with the gods existence and various shitlists?
The superstitious are offering the disease as though it were the cure, and all you have to do is look around you to see it's effects to understand why this has always been a very bad idea. At best gods are a third party whose function is to affirm and legitimize those human values that human beings already assert.
That makes for a rough setup. We've never actually been equal in the eyes of the various gods, and if those gods don't exist, we aren't even equal inasmuch as they described. Long story short, this is an absurdly bad foundation for human equality. I can't actually think of a worse one.
Why not premise the equality of human beings on something to do with human beings, which definitely do exist and are demonstrably similar in a great many ways.... rather than something to do with the gods existence and various shitlists?
The superstitious are offering the disease as though it were the cure, and all you have to do is look around you to see it's effects to understand why this has always been a very bad idea. At best gods are a third party whose function is to affirm and legitimize those human values that human beings already assert.
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