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Would you opt for a life with no pain? - Hayley Levitt and Bethany RickwaldIt's basically what's being offered by most religions in afterlife for those who follow them.Science and technology offer similar things, except that they can be done while we're alive.
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 27/08/2021 09:10:37Would you opt for a life with no pain? - Hayley Levitt and Bethany RickwaldIt's basically what's being offered by most religions in afterlife for those who follow them.Science and technology offer similar things, except that they can be done while we're alive.
You missed the point. Religions by definition offer things that cannot be done. Things that can be done are called engineering, medicine, farming, whatever....
re·li·gion: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
It's sometimes difficult to distinguish between religion and pornography.
Pornography is defined as "that which tends to deprave or corrupt". Anything that induces a person to harm or degrade another fits the bill in my view, and harm surely includes contradicting rational thought.
printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.
1: the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement2: material (such as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement3: the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction
Most people enjoy a bit of porn (test 1) but wouldn't admit to inflicting it on their children (test 2). So it's immoral. Some people get a feeling of religious ecstacy, but wouldn't enjoy being criticised for worshipping the wrong god, or seeing their children killed for the same "reason". So it's immoral.
Some people would admit to inflicting it on their children. On what ground would you call them immoral?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 01/09/2021 12:28:00Some people would admit to inflicting it on their children. On what ground would you call them immoral?The one thing all religions have in common is that they teach you to despise all the others. That's depraved and corrupt.
The one thing all religions have in common is that they teach you to despise all the others. That's depraved and corrupt.
On March 4, 1806, during a meeting of the national committee Napoleon said:“Je ne vois pas dans la religion le mystère de l'Incarnation mais le mystère de l'Ordre Social. La religion rattache au ciel une idée d'égalité qui empêche le riche d'être massacré par le pauvre." translation: “I don’t see in religion evidence of the mystery of the incarnation, but rather the mystery of social order. Religion associates heaven with an idea of equality that keeps the rich from being massacred by the poor.”
Quote from: alancalverd on 02/09/2021 00:09:10The one thing all religions have in common is that they teach you to despise all the others. That's depraved and corrupt.We can analyze religions like any other memes. The fact that some of them have survived for millenias suggests that they have some benefits for their societies, which outweigh their cost and flaws. One of their main benefits has been identified centuries ago. QuoteOn March 4, 1806, during a meeting of the national committee Napoleon said:“Je ne vois pas dans la religion le mystère de l'Incarnation mais le mystère de l'Ordre Social. La religion rattache au ciel une idée d'égalité qui empêche le riche d'être massacré par le pauvre." translation: “I don’t see in religion evidence of the mystery of the incarnation, but rather the mystery of social order. Religion associates heaven with an idea of equality that keeps the rich from being massacred by the poor.”
Does it include Buddhism and Jainism?
Religion is what gives perverts the presumed authority to interfere in the lives of others.