If you think about it, on many issues religious ideas seem out-dated or primitive but nowadays I see myself agreeing with religious standpoints a lot. What u guys think?
Even if they have morally applicable truths they are ultimately wrong on their postulations about the nature of reality, though they may have some valuable lessons for the human experience. You must also be careful not to fall into their more dogmatic teachings and maintain your ability to develop your own opinion about things, rather than looking for the answers in age old books.
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I'm guessing Argument from authority has now been recognized as a sound basis for asserting one's opinions as fact?
No. We were much better off with strength-promoting religions of European pagans.
I’m sorry to tell you this but if you are truly self aware and alaytical you will see the contradictions in them yourself if you keep looking. You can learn something from moral parables, I’m not denying that, but believing in a God who is looking down on you with an invested interest in your life is only going to frustrate you when the universe gives you a shit hand and you have to ask; “why me? Why not someone who was better suited to dealing with a problem like this?” And if you believe in an anthropocentric God then there is no answer to this question.
Yeah, the dogmatism in Abrahamism can honestly become stifling and source of neurosis. Roman Catholicism is probably the worst in terms of dogmatism (along with Islam): being partly a political religion that was used to defend feudalism and autocracy, it is a lot about submission to established structures and authority figures. That doesn't align very well with the usual psychological makeup of an incel.
Abrahamic religions are interesting though. In a very rough way, I would say it's a form of Buddhism/moral philosophy designed for the masses. It's both easier to understand/practice and scarier (due to reinforced emotional threats like Hell).
Indeed, that's the reason I can't fully believe in a personal God. Theodicies are unsatisfying and the book of Job (designed to explain away God's apparent unfairness) is just a bad joke bordering on cruelty.
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Yeah, I think once you consider that the Canon Gospels were chosen by an Empire who’s economy was totally predicated on slavery and who’s global domination was totally predicated on military occupation, then you have to start to question their motives when they issue you with a moral document that fails to condemn either of those heinous enterprises. Surely one of the Ten Commandments should be; “Thou must never own another human being” this is fundamental to the relative morality of modern society yet the Bible has nothing to say about it.
That’s a very interesting way of looking at them, and I see what you mean. The pagan religions that came before do little in the way of prescribing a moral code of conduct and I think people fundamentally want to believe that they are good, which in a historical context just means having God on your side.
Funnily enough, the book of Job was the one book of the Bible which my Religious Studies teacher at school (a very devout Anglican) said he couldn’t agree with, simply because there were so many innocent casualties in God’s execution of one man’s personal moral lesson. I wish I knew more at the time and could have asked him what he thought of 2 Kings and the story of Elisher, for whom God sent two she bears to tear fourty two children limb from limb for mocking an old man’s bald spot. As you said, the book of Job is intended to explain why God is unfair, but I don’t think it does this. All it does is demonstrate that he is unfair. I find the notion that all suffering is essentially a test of one’s faith to be massively unsatisfying and does not paint a picture of a just God whatsoever in my opinion.
In fact I find the whole concept of ‘worship’ to be hugely unpalatable, it’s as if God is an attention hungry child who refuses to be ignored. I could never believe in anything that doesn’t adhere to it’s own moral principles (pride is a deadly sin, so we’re told).
When my prayers get answered, I will believe.
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