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The things people worship now, they don't call God. That doesn't always make them irreligious. I can think of more than one popular modern movement that is deis
by blueyes 3y ago
The things people worship now, they don't call God. That doesn't always make them irreligious. I can think of more than one popular modern movement that is deistic, in that it fashions a god-like power out of some idea, a soul-like essence out of another. The church of the subreddit.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI'm not religious but I am spiritual.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoI thought you were going to say the Church of, capital s, Science.
- 0134340 3y agoThat take assumes there's some sort of religious vacuum, that if they don't worship a god then those desires will go into worshiping other things. It's naive in assuming their lack of desire to worship someone or something is a lie. There are many who actually feel no need to worship anything powerful and even some of them assume the powerful are doing well enough to not need worshiped.
- blueyes 3y agoI don't think it does. I think it simply poses an analogy between religious activity and the other belief-driven activities that people constantly engage in, even when they are not actively attaching themself to a metaphysics and an afterlife.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoRedefining terms doesn't change a metaphor to literal truth.