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That's some serious mental gymnastics you're doing there! Al lot of what you call "religious tendencies" are just cognitive and organizational tools. Religions
by Jare 5y ago
That's some serious mental gymnastics you're doing there!
Al lot of what you call "religious tendencies" are just cognitive and organizational tools. Religions use and codify (some of) them in their own ways, and other aspects and approaches to human life use and / or codify in their own ways too.
Whatever leads you to wish for more structure and codification in your life and the world that surrounds, and you find them in religion, that's fine. Other people find them in military life, others in self-discipline, others in ascetism, others in their professional career, etc. But trying to impregnate your religious beliefs and choices onto everyone else is, I think, just trying to justify and shut down your own doubts. If you don't see this then, if I may put it this way, you may lack certain cognitive tools to recognize it.
- the-smug-one 5y agoTo me, it sounds like they really hit you on a sore spot :). What OP talked about regarding ideology reminds me of the stuff that Zizek talks about. I'm no philosopher, but the thought that ideology has subsumed religion doesn't seem too far fetched. We, as a species, do seem to have a tendency to form religions and hold different biases.
- dudeman13 5y agoEye rolling on a claim that "X is religious" when it can be just a simple "X is a cognitive and organizational tool" seems fair to me. Specially when religious people are so fond of calling something religious when that something has nothing to do with religion
- furgooswft13 5y agoMany secular people are very fond of pinning all the worlds problems on religion, so I think it's fair to use the term back at them when they constantly act in the same exact ways they decry. It clearly hits a nerve too.