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Orlanth is the light. Also there are as many religions as there are religious people. Lots of people saying they follow religion X or religion Y, when they actually mean "my wildly loose conception of what religion X means, brought about and maintained by the society that surrounds me". So really, religion is just some sort of societal peer pressure mechanism that we've managed to superficially organize to some degree, and some people have managed to exploit with extreme success and at the expense of participants. I personally think religion as a personal decision is just an intellectual crutch and people should embrace rationality, but I also think it's very disingenuous of people like Dawkins to make religion the source of all evils. That's just stupid. The true problem is with society, religion is just a symptom of other, deeper things.
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Boogaleeboo posted:You paid money and dedicated some of the limited time in your life to posting here, what makes you think you have a worldview shaped by rationality? Whoa there friend you seem to be making a mistake, never in my post did I mention myself as an example or anything of the sort.
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Who What Now posted:And how do you prove this is the worst possible world scientifically? You're posting in it. Just kidding, but seriously now, everyone's acting like dicks, over-simplifying society. We're a very complex species with extremely complex interactions. You really can't boil it all down into a post. For all our complaining however, look at how we lived in the past and how we live now - life as a human is pretty drat sweet. Sure, there's a lot of bad bad awful stuff, but we'll get there, baby steps. And "baby steps" doesn't mean "destroy all religion" by the way, deep down what you want to solve is the communication problem that we humans have, which is as old as our species. It is a problem of selfishness and otherizing. It's a problem of barriers between individuals. Rakosi posted:Try describe to me a world which is worse than this. Oh come on now, you're being silly.
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