RE: I think Christianity is true, even if Islam where to rule the world
August 12, 2024 at 6:18 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2024 at 6:20 am by Sheldon.)
(August 8, 2024 at 2:17 pm)Riddar90 Wrote:(August 8, 2024 at 2:15 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If your religion puts ease on your mind, your religion may be shit. You may just be talking about the comfort of superstition here, as before...but...religions, genuinely held, are an aspirational struggle. An attempt to remake ourselves and the world. If that puts you at ease you may be a cretin, lol.
Let me ask you something. When it comes to politics. People are often very tribal. I for example am not biggest fan of Two Party Establishment and prefer Representative Multiparty System. Or there is the blame game of saying someone hates this and that, slurs insults. All the nasty things people say. When one is in that type of world. Then finding comfort in something that people can truly find unification under, to me that sounds like a good deal.
I only care whether the belief is true, and since it is a subjective belief, I remain dubious. However I don't believe your claims about Christian unity either, there are over 200 different Christian sects and denominations in the US alone, around 45k globally. Religions evolve, they cannot do otherwise it seems to me.
If I was to try and take solace in subjective ideas, then the hope for legal equality, and democracy for as many people as possible, would be my choices. That people are free, and that they should remain so, that we try to eradicate poverty, and create opportunity, hope can come from that, I see no evidence or need for religion. What's worse I have too long watched religions used to justify suffering, poverty, inequality, and all manner of evil and nefarious ideas. When a person believes that what they are doing reflects the will of a "perfect" deity, it is not a comforting thought to me at all, quite the opposite. Rather I value doubt, and scepticisms, and a desire to continually examine all ideas, claims and beliefs, if any belief can't withstand critical scrutiny, then why would I want to hold any such belief.