This is how I'm coming close to accept we need Wrath
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I’m sure Leftists would agree. Leftists are what you get when a society rejects Christianity and goes full atheist.
Every western society that rejects Christianity ends up losing its mind and embracing collectivism and authoritarianism.
I also note that most anti-theists are like homosexuals in that they almost always had some childhood trauma that fuels their anti-religious resentment. Simple atheists rarely harbor such resentment, and many even recognize the value of Christianity and religion in general.
It is because human psychology needs religion at a fundamental level. If you remove theism you need to replace it with something else that looks like a religion: like being a social justice warrior. We need things that feel like altruism, penance, universal justice, agape/brotherhood, and deifications of good and evil. Either we'll find those things through faith or they will be imposed on us by the state or culture.
(the Based Atheist only proves the exception to the rule)
I heard or read somewhere that there's a very important difference between a theistic cult or commune, and the non-theistic types. In the theistic type of place, the more demands placed on the followers, the longer it will last, and the stronger it will be. For the non-theistic kind, the fewer demands, the better (ie, the artsy-fartsy kind of hippie communes that were into things like MDA, LSD, and pot mostly just banned alcohol (because it doesn't play nice with MDA/MDMA).
What's going on is actually a brewing war between "Apollo" and "Dionysus", as well as being between "Dogs" and "Dingos", if you catch my drift.
As has been pointed out, a lot of the wokesters are basically just calvinists stripped of the supernaturalism.
I grew up Calvinist. They were not as strict as the woke left. Unlike the woke, they didn't condemn everything they saw as sinful and demand it be overtly Christian.
Or they could realise the dangers of religion? Religion has no value except for controlling the masses.
A common atheist belief with no basis in reality.
Religion is inevitable... even atheists adhere to a worldview with underlying assumptions, and dogma isn't uniquely religious. Everyone is religious in this respect.
Exactly. Dogma doesn't need a god. It's just what you're not allowed to question.
"Religion is inevitable" Yeah because the masses are sheep and have to believe in something to feel safe.