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> What the dogma gave them is just some codified rules, no one else needs to join the religion to reap the benefits of discipline, but to the practitioners, the
by zavulon 16y ago
> What the dogma gave them is just some codified rules, no one else needs to join the religion to reap the benefits of discipline, but to the practitioners, their faith is the end all be all and they have evidence to prove "it works".
I wouldn't make such a sweeping statement about everybody who became religious, even if you're only talking about criminals. You have no way of knowing this.
- mahmud 16y agoI am not talking about religion alone, that was only an example, take any other "system" to organize human behavior that doesn't directly credit the human adopter, and it's the same. Another example is people who swear by military service as the only way to become disciplined.