Religions are hit or miss, but unfortunately, for better or worse, I suspect there's a religion-shaped hole in most people's psyche.
This is pure speculation on my part, but stay with me. Religions have existed in one form or another for most of the time Homo Sapiens has walked the earth, right?
And a good chunk of religions, if not the majority, have had a tendency towards violently purging non-believers.
Is it possible that over time, those liable to believe in religious dogma, and as a sidenote, those who are skeptical, but smart enough to know how and when to keep their mouths shut, would be the ones more liable to have kids, leading to a world full of people who have an almost pathological need for some form of religious teaching, with a few skeptics here and there?
Marx was wrong about most things, but I agree with him about religion being the opiate of the masses.
Funny enough, I thought that was Nietzsche that said that, lol.
Ironically, so is Marxism.
...I'd say it's more of the...bath salts of the masses... = P It mean it's adherents literally advocate cannibalism... lmao
when they're basically all the same.
There are differences, and of all things a comedy singer pointed out that it takes about 2000 years to civilize a religion, but I think the main takeaway is that before you try to get rid of religion, you need to find something as good or better to fill that religion-shaped hole in people's psyche.
The sick fuck in me really wants to make a messed up joke here...
My point being that religion isn't something that can just be abandoned by a society without understanding the roll it fills and finding something suitable to replace it. Better to leave a religion that advocates self-determination and peaceful coexistence with others than to abandon it and have it replaced with one that demands zealous adherence to its dogma and strict punishment of non-believers like, oh, I dunno... Islam, Marxism, etc...
Religions are hit or miss, but unfortunately, for better or worse, I suspect there's a religion-shaped hole in most people's psyche.
This is pure speculation on my part, but stay with me. Religions have existed in one form or another for most of the time Homo Sapiens has walked the earth, right?
And a good chunk of religions, if not the majority, have had a tendency towards violently purging non-believers.
Is it possible that over time, those liable to believe in religious dogma, and as a sidenote, those who are skeptical, but smart enough to know how and when to keep their mouths shut, would be the ones more liable to have kids, leading to a world full of people who have an almost pathological need for some form of religious teaching, with a few skeptics here and there?
Funny enough, I thought that was Nietzsche that said that, lol.
...I'd say it's more of the...bath salts of the masses... = P It mean it's adherents literally advocate cannibalism... lmao
There are differences, and of all things a comedy singer pointed out that it takes about 2000 years to civilize a religion, but I think the main takeaway is that before you try to get rid of religion, you need to find something as good or better to fill that religion-shaped hole in people's psyche.
The sick fuck in me really wants to make a messed up joke here...
My point being that religion isn't something that can just be abandoned by a society without understanding the roll it fills and finding something suitable to replace it. Better to leave a religion that advocates self-determination and peaceful coexistence with others than to abandon it and have it replaced with one that demands zealous adherence to its dogma and strict punishment of non-believers like, oh, I dunno... Islam, Marxism, etc...