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But also the most successful. That is why it exists. I am pretty sure without religion we wouldn’t have been able to live together in sedentary groups larger than a few hundred people.
Religion was used to justify it, and it was used to make the slaves more docile as well. Double edged sword. But then it turned to a source of strength as they emancipated.
It’s complex. Humans are not going to give up religion, they’re just not. We should work to make the religions better if we want things to get better, and that means supporting the good religious people so they can affect change.
@ivanafterall The Founders believed that, too, and they were wrong about it. It turns out, religion is an instinct most people have, and they will be religious if they are not inoculated against it by a level of reason that frankly most people just don’t have, and never will. Talk to ordinary people, and you’ll see that most people have the forensics of children. That against human instinct is all but hopeless.
Religion will decline, and we will reach some equilibrium, but it’s not going away.
Religion is the most destructive human invention.
But also the most successful. That is why it exists. I am pretty sure without religion we wouldn’t have been able to live together in sedentary groups larger than a few hundred people.
…more than slavery? how tonedeaf can you be
Religion can be used to rationalize slavery. So there.
Religion was used to justify it, and it was used to make the slaves more docile as well. Double edged sword. But then it turned to a source of strength as they emancipated.
It’s complex. Humans are not going to give up religion, they’re just not. We should work to make the religions better if we want things to get better, and that means supporting the good religious people so they can affect change.
I disagree. I think humans are going to give up religion. They just are.
@ivanafterall The Founders believed that, too, and they were wrong about it. It turns out, religion is an instinct most people have, and they will be religious if they are not inoculated against it by a level of reason that frankly most people just don’t have, and never will. Talk to ordinary people, and you’ll see that most people have the forensics of children. That against human instinct is all but hopeless.
Religion will decline, and we will reach some equilibrium, but it’s not going away.
Slavery was justified in large part for religious reasons.
…but it was the slavery that was the worst outcome, right?
I think you could just say control of the masses as the worst thing that has happened. Slavery is part of that control.
There’s a bunch of torture, murder and human sacrifice that stemmed from religion too. Those are pretty bad IMO.
You’re not wrong, but it’s bad form to say “slavery isn’t worse than X”
Why? Do you think slavery is worse than cannibalistic child rape and murder?
It’s like saying “all lives matter” in the context of “black lives matter”
it’s not wrong. but that’s not the right time to say it.
I don’t believe you.
you should read up on how heliocentrists were treated!