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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The way I see it all religions are mythology, stories that cannot be proven yet stand as the foundation for civilization as we know it. They serve as the cornerstone for nearly everything and teach lessions that are objectively good. They also allow us to understand how we interact and perceive the world around us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The way I see it, you're allowed to be wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do myths not teach lessions, I think we can simultaneously understand that they're myths and also that tell alot about ourselves (and the people who make them).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

What you are describing are human tendencies towards pro-social activity and cultural creation. Attributing them to the crappy hegemonic stories pushed by authoritarians and conquerors (all the pictured religions in the meme fall into this category) gives those crappy, boring, often antisocial stories more credit than they deserve.

Unless you have some really good examples for how a story about how some gimp-fet deity like Jesus or a family-abandoner like Siddhartha are foundational to, say, deconstructing global imperialism? Can I learn how to deconstruct global imperialism from Jesus, who suggested placating and appeasing violent imperialists? Is that "objectively good" to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bad news about the social construct of 'delusion'

whether a belief is a "delusion" or not has a lot more to do with whether it is socially convenient to those immediately surrounding you and a lot less to do with factual truth

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