Maybe that’s why I have too much of it then. Also think it does worse for people to believe in things that have no factual basis for being real. We need to learn we are humans, an sentient being but just an animal, we aren’t special and we have issues and need to deal with them in a healthy way.
For the record I’m just saying no tangible proof of a higher existence, if you want to believe that’s for you is all. To each their own. I just need some proof myself.
Course some people drink a lot not like that’s worse than religion healthwise. Long as you don’t go on a crusade anyways then the drinking may be better.
Any source of profound hope can be used as a tool for hate by the hateful, but religion has served very important community functions that we haven’t really replaced as we move to atheism, to our own detriment.
I’ve found some of Britt Hartley’s videos on the topic of secular spiritualism (gag at the term) kind of eye opening (and easy to consume) as an atheist myself. This part is this video in particular was great
Its absolutely supposed to be. But then we came along and got the classic human stink all over it. Everything will be fine after you die as long as you recruit all your friends and do as I say and gimme some money. Might do a Holy War too, stay tuned for that.
I mean, religion is human made, so we didn’t just come along.
But more importantly is can be both of these things at once, a salve for your existential anxiety and a tool to whip people into a mindless frenzy; nearly any source of profound hope can be used thusly
I think religion is the salve of anxiety.
People have anxiety about death and their purpose, and religion relieves that anxiety
Maybe that’s why I have too much of it then. Also think it does worse for people to believe in things that have no factual basis for being real. We need to learn we are humans, an sentient being but just an animal, we aren’t special and we have issues and need to deal with them in a healthy way.
For the record I’m just saying no tangible proof of a higher existence, if you want to believe that’s for you is all. To each their own. I just need some proof myself.
Course some people drink a lot not like that’s worse than religion healthwise. Long as you don’t go on a crusade anyways then the drinking may be better.
Any source of profound hope can be used as a tool for hate by the hateful, but religion has served very important community functions that we haven’t really replaced as we move to atheism, to our own detriment.
I’ve found some of Britt Hartley’s videos on the topic of secular spiritualism (gag at the term) kind of eye opening (and easy to consume) as an atheist myself. This part is this video in particular was great
Its absolutely supposed to be. But then we came along and got the classic human stink all over it. Everything will be fine after you die as long as you recruit all your friends and do as I say and gimme some money. Might do a Holy War too, stay tuned for that.
I mean, religion is human made, so we didn’t just come along.
But more importantly is can be both of these things at once, a salve for your existential anxiety and a tool to whip people into a mindless frenzy; nearly any source of profound hope can be used thusly