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IMHO, it's not. Their intentions are well founded, but I can find no safety or trust in a group that considers rationality a personal choice.
by WalterSear 7y ago
IMHO, it's not. Their intentions are well founded, but I can find no safety or trust in a group that considers rationality a personal choice.
- md224 7y agoSorry, but could you (or someone else) explain what you mean here? I'd really like to understand this. Are you referring to UU or atheists? What group considers rationality to be a personal choice, and in what sense?
- WalterSear 7y agoI don't feel safe around religious people. Any place where I am required to accommodate their beliefs is not going to be a spiritual or communal place to me.
- scruple 7y agoThis is my perception of them, as well.
- tathougies 7y agoWhat's interesting is that your notion of 'rationality' is based in the religious beliefs of first the Greeks, then the Romans, and then Christianity. When you read non-Western philosophies, you soon realize that there are many disjointed notions of rationality. Of course, your perception of the universalism of rational thought is due to the globalization of Western philosophy as the de facto truth -- a sort of conversion of the entire world, so to speak.
- WalterSear 7y agoIMHO, not really. I just have a low tolerance for woo and bullshit - western, or eastern bullshit. Fwiw, I'm not western in origin, and have spend much of my life in non-western countries. I'm not sure what you are referring to in terms 'western' vs 'eastern' philosophy, but I'm not ignorant of the various perspectives brought forward by Suffism, Jainism, Sikism, the various forms Buddhism. If anything, the commonality of bigotry and human nature that I've witnessed living in multiple places around the globe is what makes me uncomfortable with religion. I'm not comfortable with people playing pretend. It does too much damage.