Yo dawgs, I don’t get religious people.
How can all religions be the right one? If only one is right one, then which one?
Sorry
Does not compute
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I think that religion is like a software with particular rituals arid rites or best practices. If you download the software for it's intended purposes there is a right and wrong way. Let that process my fren 🤓🤓🤓
My brain in incompatible.
We no longer need religion to learn how to behave.
Religion is also outdated and barbaric in its teachings. Rape, murder, extortion, discrimination.
Word.
But they’re fuck not going to accept the fact that their ancestors were rapping, pillaging sons of bitches
“Times were different back then.” “You’re misinterpreting it.” “Don’t take it out of context.” 🤡
It is truly amazing 😅
My observation is some people want religion for immediate answers to:
Why am I here?
What happens after I die?
(My family/schooling/friends/environment taught me nothing or weren’t clear so,) What moral/ethics rules should I follow?
I personally either have or don’t need to know those answers immediately. But obviously others have different preferences. That’s how I presume to understand people’s interest in religions 🤷🏻.
I like the list. Another big one missing imo is “i’m experiencing serious hardships in life and need a source of hope” and then there’s a few billion people throwing what they will go to the grave defending to be The Answer in their faces
Yeah I agree that people don’t like the idea of not knowing why we’re here or how we came to be. They’re too arrogant to think that their existence isn’t special and doesn’t have a higher meaning lol
Someone that doesn’t believe in religion and God can’t claim those things are objectively bad, only that it is their opinion that they are bad
Or, like languages, religions just have different “dialects”
Although some are more pleasing to the ear than others 💜
This is a very positive take that is just not true. All religions claim that non believers go to hell.
I should say most not all religions
If I were to adopt a religion, it would probably be Buddhism. From a former childhood enforced Catholic 💜
I’m not familiar with Buddhism but it seems peaceful and it doesn’t gaslight you into thinking you’ll go to hell
It's not at all peaceful, IMO. And it certainly does gaslight you with the whole concept of karma.
Not surprised. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to Buddhism. What aspects of it are violent?
Supposedly, you choose all your suffering in this life.
It also functionally lends itself to horrible neglect of others.
Neglect of yourself in a way too. If you’re supposed to just meditate and accept your shitty situation in life, then you’re vulnerable to abuse.
Or, perhaps, invulnerable to abuse.
Religion is a big and complex topic. For starters, even defining the world religion is hard. So you have to start with a working definition and go from there.
One helpful way to understand religions (sorry, not enough time to define it), is that they typically start from an identification that life is unsatisfactory, and/or meaningless, and then identify some sort of solution, or salvation. Along the way they also try to answer fundamental questions of life like, who am I? Who are you? and What is this word?
For example, some Christians could be said to identify the suffering of life as being due to selfishness and disobedience to God, which results in suffering and ultimately, death. So the solution is having faith that Jesus fixed all that, resulting in an eternal life free of suffering.
Conversely, some Buddhists could be said to identify that eternal life is our problem, that is, we experience the samsara cycle of endless birth, life (of suffering, unsatisfactoriness, meaninglessness), death and rebirth. So salvation is in a sense achieved through escaping this eternal life through mediation and non attachment to your idea of the self - so you have to 'die' in a sense - so the complete opposite in some sense to Christianity! They start with the same problems but go off in completely different directions for solutions.
This is a very broad generalization and the main religions have enormous disagreements and divergent thinking amongst them. But I just try to give the jist of things.
And also, they are a great tool to oppress or liberate people depending on the personalities of adherents, especially the rulers (that German guy around the time of WW2 loved it, and cobbled together his own). This is why you can meet both really great and really awful people involved in all kinds of religion. Very powerful ideology. And if you're not careful, it's easy to hurt yourself and others. Beware!
*What is this World? (not word)
It’s your opinion that religions start by looking for an answer to life dissatisfaction. There is no evidence for that claim. Another valid view is that religions were started in order to control people.
The best definition of religion is that it is a socially accepted cult.
at least in the abrahamic religions, they are all the same stories told from different perspectives. i've always looked at the holy books and religions as an art form. issues come up when they become political institutions and are taken literal. its like naw just read the stories and apply it to your material reality. most of these churches in the hood are just sucking up money from families.
The problem is that religion IS a political institution. I would argue that the political nature is necessary for it to become adopted at mass scale.
Yeah absolutely.
It’s fear of the unknown and the desperation at the hard times that causes man to grab on to something bigger than himself.
Nothing shakes a MF like the thought of loneliness after death.
“Yo, is this out? Is this really the end. Nah, there’s got to be a god and a reason for living”
They are not. Christianity
It’s up to you to arrive to that conclusion the same way people arrive at Bitcoin being the best money over all the shitcoins
Been essentially deist for a long time for this reason. Most of it is ridiculous if taken at all literally, and is just an apparatus to enslave and coerce.
That said, for a very different view on physics and cosmology, the Vedic traditions have been very interesting. That is not to say I would adopt Hinduism in its current form, but the intelligence coming out of the Indus Valley was well ahead of its time, possibly more scientifically advanced than our current materialist view of spacetime and particle physics.
