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Where my free speech warriors at?
- Thread starter Aruka
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i think "ideology" is a better word for it than "secular religion" but it is indeed possessed by the same close-minded dogmatism and bigotry that makes the religious fundamentalists so dangerous
Are you really denying the dogmatic rituals and punishments for heresies?Would you like to qualify this claim in some way? No? I didn’t think so.
in summary, you were wrong, you conceded the point I was making, but just to maintain consistency you also inserted a deeply idiotic and hyperbolic claim
The biblical god as simply been supplanted by the state, complete with saints, dogmas, and rituals
You’re too smart to willfully ignore these things, that’s what makes your constant. #believing worse
Why is it always binary and all or nothing with you people?So no one believes in God anymore?
Get better
Why does one need to replace the other?
Can't a person belong to both a state and a religion?
Remember, binary bad!
Or is it that we all belong to secular religions and some of us belong to both secular and religious religions? Or is this just a fucking stupid conversation?
One replaces the other because some people need saints, dogma, rituals, good-evil binary, etc in order to make sense of a complicated worldWhy does one need to replace the other?
Can't a person belong to both a state and a religion?
Remember, binary bad!
Or is it that we all belong to secular religions and some of us belong to both secular and religious religions? Or is this just a fucking stupid conversation?
Your framing is off, that's why you think it s stupid conversation
Can you explain how all the various sciences and philosophies in the world are somehow less complicated than, say, the Bible? No? I didn't think so.
According to Sharky's Wiki link, a 'secular religion' is merely any communal belief system. For example, everyone believes that paper money has the value printed on it, therefore money is religious. Stupid, right? Everyone may believe that paper money has the value printed on it but everyone also knows that the value is entirely dependent on social agreement. Everyone knows that the paper doesn't have inherent value, in other words, and no preacher man or political saint can make people believe that paper money has inherent value... well, unless they're preaching to superstitious religious folk.