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Minor but important quibble; religion is about what cannot be disproven. It can potentially be proven (if we ever encounter an alien species that, for example,
by endominus 5y ago
Minor but important quibble; religion is about what cannot be disproven. It can potentially be proven (if we ever encounter an alien species that, for example, has a document fundamentally identical to the Qur'an, the weight of evidence would swing quite heavily, I think anyone would agree).
In that framework, the people comparing wokism to a religion might point out several unfalsifiable beliefs that it's adherents generally hold. For an example of a fairly common one, "[inequality] is the result of discrimination."
- pstuart 5y ago> "[inequality] is the result of discrimination." That's playing with words. If we can agree that discrimination exists then that clearly impacts "equality". As to the nit about religion -- I was trying to be polite. Religion really exists because people were really ignorant in the beginning and wanted answers to the questions of life. Then it became a self-sustaining self-serving organization that exists because "god". I'd posit that almost all religious people are of their faith because their parents were of that faith. Then it's turtles all the way up.
- pstuart 5y agoMinor quibble: religion is about social control, i.e., God says you can do this but not that. I'm not trying to attack religion (happy to do that elsewhere), just trying to clarify the language being used. Specifically, this game of calling people who believe in a certain morality religious is dishonest. Just because I believe that all people should be treated equally regardless of race, creed, color, gender, sexuality, nationality, etc -- that doesn't make me religious. I hope at worst it makes me avoid being a "bad person".