RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
October 17, 2023 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2023 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Discrimination is packaged in all religious ideation. If there is a way the world should be, or people should be - then there is a way that the world should not be, and people should not be. Babies aren't done baking yet. We get good at projection and goal seeking behaviors really quick, though. By the time we're a few years old we're already primed to accept the idea of an eye in the sky. We already want things, we're already forming strategies to get them.
Teaching religion is the act and effort of normalizing those innate characteristics with the vision of the community to which we belong. It's also the main avenue for religious revision or reformation. We never get full compliance, so every new adherent in the tent brings a collection of non standard ideas with them and those ideas compete internally for popularity within the in-crowd.
Teaching religion is the act and effort of normalizing those innate characteristics with the vision of the community to which we belong. It's also the main avenue for religious revision or reformation. We never get full compliance, so every new adherent in the tent brings a collection of non standard ideas with them and those ideas compete internally for popularity within the in-crowd.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
