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I have a lot of doubt. Sure, in some parts of the country, but in most parts religion is playing a significantly smaller part in people's lives with every gener
by robbrown451 8y ago
I have a lot of doubt. Sure, in some parts of the country, but in most parts religion is playing a significantly smaller part in people's lives with every generation.
- beginningguava 8y agoLook at the James Damore situation and tell me how it's any different from Christians excommunicating heretics hundreds of years ago. The shaming and depiction of the opposition as fundamentally evil is identical Everybody worships something, whether you call it a religion or not is irrelevant
- robotron 8y agoThanks for assuming but I do not worship anything.
- beginningguava 8y agoIf you hold any morals or ideals as having value, then you're beholden to some belief. Whether that's considered "worship" is just semantics The only alternative is that you have nothing you actually believe in, which for your sake I hope isn't true.
- bonesss 8y agoBeing beholden to beliefs is common to all people. But worship, to show reverence and adoration (for a deity), implies something entirely different than belief. Worship implies faith (ie belief in the absence of evidence). That difference is not just semantics, it's a fundamental distinction. Christians believe you require faith in Christ to be a Christian. Atheists and Christians believe in stop signs, neither worship them.
- dang 8y agoPlease do not take HN threads on further flamewar tangents, especially when the thread is already tending that way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html