You know how some people make the claim that atheism is a religion? This is why. People who think that anyone who believes something different from them is a moron and/or in need of conversion. I donโt like it when religions behave like this, and I donโt like it when nonreligions behave like this, either.
So if I call you a moron for not believing that the Easter Bunny is a real deity, you shouldnโt criticize me?
Religious people literally believe in things that mostly are no longer believed in after someone reaches about 10 years of age. All this thingโs, Santa Claus, slender man, you name it, itโs all dropped as fantasy yet religion keeps being reinforced causing actual sane adults to believe that there is a magical sky being.
As this article goes to show, itโs a great tool to control the populace, it has little real world value.
Respectfully, you think Iโm denigrating Islam because itโs different from what I believe?
No.
Iโm simply pointing out what, to anyone who wasnโt raised in it, is obvious stupidity.
Sorry if I misunderstood. I interpreted your comment as saying that all religion was moronic bullshit, which would be in line with what I said.
If you meant that this particular religious behavior is moronic bullshit, I completely agree. I just donโt hold the view that every religious person is a moron because they believe in a religion.
Not all religion is bullshit, but there is a lot of crossover between religious teachings and bullshit. Thatโs why they invented the word โfaithโ, because they are self-aware of the incredulousness of it all.
Like the utter bullshit in this article, as if 7th Century teachings have anything to say about VPNโs.
Using allegory as a moral proxy is fine. And even a really great way of making complex or dry topics more approachable.
What is not ok is when you take allegory as literal, such that you actually believe that there is a sky wizard who will punish you for showing your hair in public. What is incredibly fucked up is when you then project that literal belief to a prescriptive action framework which commands you to murder heretics.
I love this comment.
My related anecdote is that I studied Aikido for many years, and thereโs a lot of woo-woo in it. Energy, and Ki and whatnot. At one point (I was taking physics at the time) I realized that Aikido of all about directing momentum and force, and force as levers on body parts, and that you could probably calculate all of the various ideal angles for maximum conservation of momentum, and angles for balance pointsโฆ and I realized that all of the woo-woo was a simplification of all of this that allows people to think about all of these things in real time and intuitively, rather than getting locked up in the theory.
I doubt that was the process and intention of the inventor, and a lot of practitioners believed in Ki or Chi or magic juiceโฆ but itโs all just physics boiled down to something people can easily visualize. And, yes, the problems start when people begin believing the magic juice, and start proclaiming that they can influence someoneโs chi from a distance, or some shit. Thatโs a far cry from: if I bend your wrist this way, itโs incredibly painful and youโre going to fall over to stop it, or break your wrist.
