(January 28, 2015 at 4:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 4:19 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: When Stalin needed morale boosters during WWII he reopened the churches, and the pews fill up quickly. When the Soviet Union collapsed people started openly worshipping in Russia. The habit is hard to kill.
But it does need killing.
How? Fascist force like Stalin? Or theocratic fascism like Saudi Arabia?
Tactics matter and as useless as religion is, it is still part of our flawed perceptions that cause that gap filling which is evolutionary. Our only compassionate tactic without becoming monsters ourselves is with our voices, not weapons. To rid the world of religion by force would require the same barbarism we rightfully blast religion for committing.
We can do our best to use education, economic stability, free speech in debate, ridicule and blasphemy. But I am no fan of mimicking the dark side of our species history.
