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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can respect the cultural aspect of a religion without respecting the "facts" it claims.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yes all the wonderful cultural aspects! Like the inquisition, book burnings, destruction of local temples, and changing their story to fit better into all the new conquered territories 🤷‍♂️

    The cultural impact of any religion is mass control.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can, I guess. Culture is shaped by beliefs significantly tho. Dumb beliefs often result in dumb culture.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Dunno, I like the idea of meeting up with my neighbours in my local community once a week, singing in harmony with them, and then arranging small community projects to better the area

    (I'm obviously skipping over the judgement of others, the financing, the general right-wing narratives that are peddled, the power structures and the abuse that comes with it)

    I'm not religious, so the closest thing I have is volunteering at my local park once a week and working alongside a few of my locals, and though it's nice and we're definitely doing a universal good for the area... I just wish there were more people to actually make it feel like a proper community

    I was speaking with a colleague in the US, and he mentioned that he was brought up Mormon (and thankfully escaped), but he missed the community aspect of it and so he joined a Unitarian church, which as far as I understand it brings all the community benefits of church groups but basically ignores any bible preaching. It sounds nice.

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