RE: The Issue of Idolatry in Abrahamic Religions
October 8, 2023 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2023 at 3:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A much more succinct distillation of my thoughts. The contention of all of your posts on this subject, Leo, is to propose that if people believed in theism...rightly, then good things would happen. That, once upon a time, theism was believed in rightly and better things were happening. I challenge this assertion fundamentally and I think that as a sort of wandering thinker this sis something you might want to consider. That theism cannot be believed in rightly in this way. The very act of imagining gods to be personal and intervening is to create these poor outcomes. There's no rightly or wrongly about it. None of this is a bug. It's not malfunctioning.
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