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Look, I'm super cynical and I make statements that group people together like this too; but that said: King fights religious & cultural bias to promote a more e
by wand3r 9y ago
Look, I'm super cynical and I make statements that group people together like this too; but that said:
King fights religious & cultural bias to promote a more equitable set of norms; works on fixing reliance on a finite and harmful resource for sustainability
Your response was that all of "them" (hundreds or millions of people potentially depending on how you define it) are backward. Religion isn't math; it's subjective. Not a subscriber myself but I welcome the reinterpretation.
Oil / The economy isn't going so great. 1) It is certainly generating income and power. 2) The most wealthy and powerful beneficiary announced he's trying to distribute the money using that power and transform it in a positive way
- rebootthesystem 9y ago> Religion isn't math; it's subjective. No I'm sorry. It is objectively delusional.
- Griffinsauce 9y agoIt's objectively (1) a very early way to make sense of the world and (2) a way to set up ready made norms and values for even your most unintelligent parts of society. It's very effective at those things. That said: we have science now for the first bit, which is much more effective at that job minus the simplicity. What do we have to replace the second part?
- Schwolop 9y agoSports. I should probably expand on that somewhat tongue in cheek answer. It's a pretty cynical response, but there's truth in it. Following and/or playing sports provides people with a tribe and a set of shared values and camaraderie. Much like religion, I've never felt the need for this, but there's certainly a very large set of people who do.
- leesalminen 9y agoAgreed. I think all organized religion should be disbanded. Too much violence results when people believe in fairy tales.
- vivekd 9y ago>Religion isn't math; it's subjective No it's not. At least it's not in the case of Abraham religions. Each of these religions have texts that claim to come from God. And the content of these texts are about as open to interpretation as the sentences I'm typing now . . . which is not very. They're relatively clear and not all that open to interpretation.
- makeset 9y agoWhat? All Abrahamic religious texts are notoriously ambiguous and self-contradictory. History of religion is the study of sectarian conflict.