RE: Being "Moderately Religious" Makes no sense
January 27, 2015 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm by Dystopia.)
What Cato said.
I think it is not really relevant if being a moderate is rational or not. What matters to me is that moderates are more likely to be open minded and usually don't want to forcibly impose their religion to the rest of the population, so it's something that benefits all society and we can't really complain.
The alternative would be for every religious theist to be a fundamentalist, which would result in far greater harm for all of us
My brain tells me that moderates are probably a sub-type of theists that are in the process of de-conversion, but unfortunately some of them die before they turn atheist. This transition seems pretty linear to me - From a generation of fundamentalists you go to a generation of moderates, and some will already be agnostics or atheists; from there on more people start leaving faith and only a minority will remain religious, until they fade away completely
I think it is not really relevant if being a moderate is rational or not. What matters to me is that moderates are more likely to be open minded and usually don't want to forcibly impose their religion to the rest of the population, so it's something that benefits all society and we can't really complain.
The alternative would be for every religious theist to be a fundamentalist, which would result in far greater harm for all of us
My brain tells me that moderates are probably a sub-type of theists that are in the process of de-conversion, but unfortunately some of them die before they turn atheist. This transition seems pretty linear to me - From a generation of fundamentalists you go to a generation of moderates, and some will already be agnostics or atheists; from there on more people start leaving faith and only a minority will remain religious, until they fade away completely
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
