Those "mores" as you call them, are just plain superstition dressed up as a socially sanctioned belief system. We are capable of much more than that, if only we are allowed to develop the capacity to think. I have nothing against tradition, origin legends and ritual, but so often they are held up as truths rather than the way a particula…
Those "mores" as you call them, are just plain superstition dressed up as a socially sanctioned belief system. We are capable of much more than that, if only we are allowed to develop the capacity to think. I have nothing against tradition, origin legends and ritual, but so often they are held up as truths rather than the way a particular society organizes itself. Religion, too often is used to justify brutality and serves mostly to separate us from each other. Anyone who accepts religion gives up their right to think for themselves.
"mores" are essential rules and guidelines of social regulation, the "Ten Commandments" are mainly about social regulation; i sometimes think "religion" as an overarching authority was built just to enforce social/tribal/clan/ethnic/imperial/national cohesions, often with their attendant enemies, given humanity's long history of conflicts at all these levels. Not sure I get "so often as they are held up as truths rather than the way a particular society organizes itself" . The 10C is exactly a sanctioning/enforcing document, along with the multitude of other rules you'll find Exodus etc richly adorned with, with or without Yahwah's explicit command. For example, have fun reading the litany of rules about slavery and details for reimbursements for damage done to the many categories thereof. You might also remember that in the process of suppressing Russian Orthodoxy etc in the fledging Soviet Union, the Soviets committed mass atrocities in their efforts to remake society, and religion wasn't the best killing example. Best example I'd say was the deliberate mass starvation of Ukrainian peasant farmers in the early 1930s, we're talking millions here. Of course, that doesn't even get us to the Nazis, who simply wanted to annihilate whole populations so they could colonize most of eastern Europe well into Ukraine with Germans - the Master Race. I will certainly agree that the long persecution of Jews as "killers of Christ" is likely the best example of religious persecution for no other reason. I recommend reading Snyder's Bloodlands, or Plokhy's The Gates of Europe, a history of the Ukrainian region. You will blanch at the sheer level and detail of atrocity and mayhem, at not exactly in the name of "religion", allowing for the Jewish holocaust in the middle of it all.
I prefer "perfect sky parent" since a belief in any god emerges from the human longing to have a perfect parent watching over them, rather than the imperfect parents they actually had.
Those "mores" as you call them, are just plain superstition dressed up as a socially sanctioned belief system. We are capable of much more than that, if only we are allowed to develop the capacity to think. I have nothing against tradition, origin legends and ritual, but so often they are held up as truths rather than the way a particular society organizes itself. Religion, too often is used to justify brutality and serves mostly to separate us from each other. Anyone who accepts religion gives up their right to think for themselves.
"mores" are essential rules and guidelines of social regulation, the "Ten Commandments" are mainly about social regulation; i sometimes think "religion" as an overarching authority was built just to enforce social/tribal/clan/ethnic/imperial/national cohesions, often with their attendant enemies, given humanity's long history of conflicts at all these levels. Not sure I get "so often as they are held up as truths rather than the way a particular society organizes itself" . The 10C is exactly a sanctioning/enforcing document, along with the multitude of other rules you'll find Exodus etc richly adorned with, with or without Yahwah's explicit command. For example, have fun reading the litany of rules about slavery and details for reimbursements for damage done to the many categories thereof. You might also remember that in the process of suppressing Russian Orthodoxy etc in the fledging Soviet Union, the Soviets committed mass atrocities in their efforts to remake society, and religion wasn't the best killing example. Best example I'd say was the deliberate mass starvation of Ukrainian peasant farmers in the early 1930s, we're talking millions here. Of course, that doesn't even get us to the Nazis, who simply wanted to annihilate whole populations so they could colonize most of eastern Europe well into Ukraine with Germans - the Master Race. I will certainly agree that the long persecution of Jews as "killers of Christ" is likely the best example of religious persecution for no other reason. I recommend reading Snyder's Bloodlands, or Plokhy's The Gates of Europe, a history of the Ukrainian region. You will blanch at the sheer level and detail of atrocity and mayhem, at not exactly in the name of "religion", allowing for the Jewish holocaust in the middle of it all.
“ Religion, too often is used to justify brutality and serves mostly to separate us from each other.”
I agree but that is man’s interpretation of “religion” not a truth about religion itself.
But religions are both created and interpreted by human beings.
Yes! Follow the invisible leader!
I prefer "perfect sky parent" since a belief in any god emerges from the human longing to have a perfect parent watching over them, rather than the imperfect parents they actually had.
My go to: Imaginary Sky Pilot.