RE: Is Secular Liberation Possible??
August 1, 2013 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2013 at 5:51 pm by Angrboda.)
If you as a non-religious person, believe that all you have are the facts of your human existence to draw upon, then you believe that the religious are also drawing upon the elements of that human existence alone. If magic is required to do X, and magic does not exists, neither the person who believes in magic nor the person who disbelieves in magic can do X. Conversely, if there is something you think that the religious can do, then that is something you can do as well, because there is nothing in their pantry of ingredients which is different from the ingredients that are in your pantry; they are the same pantry. Thus if being happy, fulfilled, and liberated is possible for the religious, and they have no special sauce, it should be possible for you as well. If these goals are unattainable for you, they are unattainable for the religious as well. (With few exceptions.)