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Quoting a tweet from my feed: "Married people are happier than single people. Frequent church attenders are happier than people who rarely (or never) attend. "
by icxa 7y ago
Quoting a tweet from my feed:
"Married people are happier than single people. Frequent church attenders are happier than people who rarely (or never) attend. "Liberation" from religion and marriage has made millions miserable. Sexual revolutionaries have some explaining to do."
And the quoted article which it is in reference to:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-recession-causing-sex-depression/586405/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-...
There was also research done to try and show that the “gender pay gap” will continue to rise due to an increase proportion of single/unwed mothers. Turns out when you have a support system consisting of a spouse and their families, you are able to also have more economic mobility as well. I couldn’t imagine my wife climbing the ladder at her Finance job without me to help take half the parental responsibilities, and a very supportive grandma and grandpa.
Turns out maybe marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all.
- TylerE 7y agoIgnorance is bliss, personified. I'm sure it IS much more pleasant to imagine the magic sky fairy will take care of all the world's problems.
- tathougies 7y ago> I'm sure it IS much more pleasant to imagine the magic sky fairy will take care of all the world's problems. The alternative of course is nihilism in the face of the inevitable heat death of the universe. My magical sky fairy seems pretty good right now.`
- Apocryphon 7y agoIt’s also somewhat telling that transhumanism and Singularitarianism, some of the more prominent post-religion religions, are about building magical sky fairies. In the face of the second law of thermodynamics, even purveyors of secular scientism seek to escape oblivion by inventing Asimov’s AC.
- tathougies 7y agoMy favorite is the new 'scientific' idea that the universe is a simulation. It's like... if the universe is a simulation, then what are the simulators? It's buck passing all the way down.
- Apocryphon 7y agoIt’s kind of hilarious if one was to regard primitive religion as a sort of science to explain natural phenomena. Zeus throwing thunderbolts causes storms and all that. Except in the modern world, in reaction to technology, to the idea of VR, computer programs, digital simulation, modern man goes and says “aha! If we can build that, why can’t the gods do the same?” So the simulation argument can become a sort of proto-religion (if taken seriously) in response to man-made phenomena.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoI don't see how it can be not religious if taken seriously. If there's a simulator, there must be someone who programmed it. That someone is, functionally, God, who created the universe. There isn't a "religion" in the sense of having commandments or an organized church, but it says that God is objectively there - he really exists, and he created this universe. I do find it humorous (in a pathetic way) that scientific atheists have wound up at this place.
- dragonwriter 7y agoIf you think that th essential characteristic of God is being a creator, and the fact that religions usually attribute a moral-arbitration role to God is incidental, then, sure, the creator of a simulation would inherently be a God. OTOH, if the essential characteristic of God is that His will is equivalent to moral correctness, then a simulation creator doesn't necessarily fit the bill.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
- andrepd 7y agoI'm irreligious and atheist, and I'm also not a nihilist. Now what? That's a ridiculous false dichotomy. I reject the wishful fantasy of religion and of the supernatural, but I am perfectly happy with meaning in other things.
- hudon 7y agoI don't know much about religion but to call something like Christianity "wishful" feels wrong... I mean you have to forgo immediate gratification, marry one person and one person only and never even THINK about another partner, abstain from sexual acts deemed 'immoral' (of which there seems to be many), wish the betterment of all people including your worst enemies, take care of the poor, sick and needy, forego wealth and all things deemed "vain", and at the end of it all hope that you can stand in front of and answer to an ultimate Judge that can make you burn in hell forever... If this religion was meant to be wishful, I think they could've done a better job. It seems much more wishful to say "nothing matters in the end so I can do whatever I want", don't you think?
- dorian-graph 7y agoI find this ironic/hypocritical, because the second line strikes me somewhat as an example of 'ignorance is bliss, personified'.
- sisu2019 7y agosounds great, sounds smart, is more true than not but the problem is, you don't have any solutions while the dumb-ass christians do.
- sisu2019 7y ago> marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all. It so obviously isn't it's painful to imagine this is a widespread belief. Marriage exists to reign in men, monogamous marriage doubly so. Progressives have no idea what they are toying with, they are literally children playing house with grenates.
- dehrmann 7y agoI don't necessarily disagree, but just remember that correlation doesn't imply causation. Maybe single people aren't married because they're less happy.
- watwut 7y ago> Married people are happier than single people.[...] Liberation" from religion and marriage has made millions miserable. That is not entirely true for everyone. In particular, happiness after divorce differ between genders. People still marry and can marry. What changed is that women have more choice unlike in the past and once married, people can divorce. Some of people (both men and women) who are single are that for a reason - meaning them being married would mean the partner would suffer a lot more.