RE: Religion may not be the enemy.
December 15, 2014 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2014 at 4:53 pm by Alex K.)
(December 15, 2014 at 3:40 pm)The_greatest_river Wrote: Yes, but what if that structure arises to something new, something better. Why should we not try simply due to the mistakes of past religions.
You still want to appoint yourself intellectual chaperone of mankind by making up and selling them a theology which you know is bogus. If you think you need to do this in order to save humankind from themselves, if you think you know better what's good for them, and that your mission trumps truth until your utopia has arrived, you are exactly replicating the pattern of every fanatic demagogue ever, without even noticing. You basically build something like the communist dictatorships and are one step shy of setting up 1984s ministry of truth - because you betray the principles of enlightenment in the first step.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
