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I would genuinely like to hear your take on why religion has such a revered position in society. When you have people who believe in ghosts, everyone mocks them and makes jokes about how stupid they are. People who believe in curses and psychics get the same treatment. Any kind of belief in the supernatural is mocked and discouraged by most of society.
But for "religion", there's a special blind spot. You hear someone say they believe a hippie jew resurrected himself and the polite thing to do is to tell them you "respect" their opinion but disagree. And same for the people who believe in Durga or Allah or whatever, I'm using Christianity because it's the closest to me personally.
Why is religion worthy of "respect", but any other superstition is okay to be mocked and ridiculed?
Because Organized religions are deeply controlled by the people who control this planet. They need organized religions to keep a status of control in society. Same way they control atheism which is also a supernatural belief since according to them everything happened magically out of nowhere for no reason at all, another belief if you will.
Jace Flores
Religion at its best promotes virtue, higher values and traditional social structures which prevents societies from degenerating into hedonism, nihilism and decay (see: America)
I don't know if you're trolling on that last one, but in case you're not, let me try to explain. The Big Bang Theory, and beyond that quantum theory, is what is called "Counter-Intuitive".
For example, your intuition would tell you, before you think about it, that if you're holding a pound of lead and drop it, it will fall faster than a pound of feathers, because the human brain is reactively stupid. Intuition is meaningless in science.
Saying that something came from "nothing"(which isn't even really nothing actually) is counter-intuitive and feels "wrong".
But it's not wrong.
Colton Flores
I agree. I don't see why those virtues can't be promoted without the superstition part.
Josiah Wood
religion is the wires that hold society together God is the battery that brings society to life
Daniel Wright
I'm very aware 'nothing' is actually something, that seems have stood in the way of a Theory of everything. Most atheists ignore this and just claim the magic accident dilemma, if they took a different outlook they'll just be agnostics and not atheists anymore and not fall into the dichotomy of "religion" vs "atheism"
Asher Nelson
How about you make an argument explaining why you disagree instead of instantly resorting to memes? This helps move the discussion further and we might even both learn something.
Joshua Clark
"Just don't be a dick bro" is not a compelling foundation for moral behaviour. Thinking that all people can learn to live virtuously on their own without a strong traditional system to guide them is giving most people too much credit.
