RE: Is Allegorical Religion better than Fundamentalism?
March 31, 2022 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2022 at 11:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 31, 2022 at 9:27 pm)The L Wrote: There is a reason why there are no rational religions. Because the meaning of the word ‘religion’ refers to things that aren’t rational.
If you have a system of beliefs that you are passionate about that you have actually thought through and are actually rational it would be more accurate to call it your philosophy, your way of life or your worldview. You could religiously believe in the goodness of a complete absence of religions without that being contradictory and that just makes clear exactly what kind of equivocation could be going on here. It wouldn’t be your religion of no religions.
You can call whatever you want your religion but that doesn’t necessarily mean it actually is because words mean things.
Hopefully that last post cleared up any miscommunication. You'll notice that there is no requirement of irrationality in what I'm talking about. That, is what I was referring to when I mentioned there were probably negatively appraised requirements on your part for what you would accept as a religion. To you, if it's not irrational, it can't be a religion. We do have a tendency to refer to our religions when discussing our ethics and our philosophy - take any of the christian posters here in this thread as an example.
A religion of no religions is an oxymoron, a religion of x is just a placeholder for a religion that doesn't contain those things you or me or the housecat might find problematic, and does contain those things we possess a great deal of confidence in. To clear the hurdle of religion, they would be the things we are most confident in, and there would have to be other people who shared our views. If irrationality is one of the problematics things, that would be reflected in it's rejection in the religion - and if rationality is a thing we have great confidence in, it would be included or even elevated.
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