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I would focus on one even-simpler thing: Power structure. Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate.
by sliverstorm 12y ago
I would focus on one even-simpler thing:
Power structure.
Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate.
- crpatino 12y agoI beg to differ on the monopoly of religion over the power of hierarchies. Take the military by example. They have a remarkably good track record of literally sending men to die, in full knowledge that their chances or survival are negligible. There are many other less dramatic cases: at work in both the private and public sector, at the school's social dynamic, at charitable organizations, and yes in the church.
- sliverstorm 12y agoBut militaries don't form hippie communes, at least that I've ever heard of.
- crpatino 12y agoAnd hippies don't go to war either. But how is that relevant to the point of religion being the only way to make people work against their own interest.
- sliverstorm 12y agoYou missed what the point was. The statement was that historically communes only work out when founded on religion.
- sliverstorm 12y agoAh, I now realize you were objecting to this: Religion usually has a built-in power structure that nothing else has been able to replicate. I wasn't sufficiently clear. I meant within the context of "things that have been used as a basis for communes", religion stands alone.