RedTailHawk on Nostr: Rejection of religion as a whole is called throwing the baby out with the bathwater. ...
Rejection of religion as a whole is called throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
No religion has survived the distortive process of history. We're just playing a giant game of telephone. The fact that every religion has all sorts of distortions and baggage does not preclude it from also containing core spiritual truths or having originated as a result of a genuine spiritually significant occurrence.
Selective rejection of aspects of each religion in a buffet style based on consistency with science and with one another, however, is ideal, so long as the selection process is executed well. Most people would never study all religions and of those who would, many fail to execute the selection process well.
Humans are inherently required to satisfy the demands of our biological vulnerabilities. This does not make us inherently moral. We are here to choose to polarize in one of two directions: service to others or service to the self.
Service to others does not preclude serving one's own self. Inventing the wheel to serve yourself and then sharing that invention with others counts for both, but a lot of others use the wheel, making that act of sharing vastly more weighty than the service to the self component of that action.
Also, God's not some cosmic bearded dude who tells us anything. God is literally everything. Spinoza was on point about that.
No religion has survived the distortive process of history. We're just playing a giant game of telephone. The fact that every religion has all sorts of distortions and baggage does not preclude it from also containing core spiritual truths or having originated as a result of a genuine spiritually significant occurrence.
Selective rejection of aspects of each religion in a buffet style based on consistency with science and with one another, however, is ideal, so long as the selection process is executed well. Most people would never study all religions and of those who would, many fail to execute the selection process well.
Humans are inherently required to satisfy the demands of our biological vulnerabilities. This does not make us inherently moral. We are here to choose to polarize in one of two directions: service to others or service to the self.
Service to others does not preclude serving one's own self. Inventing the wheel to serve yourself and then sharing that invention with others counts for both, but a lot of others use the wheel, making that act of sharing vastly more weighty than the service to the self component of that action.
Also, God's not some cosmic bearded dude who tells us anything. God is literally everything. Spinoza was on point about that.