“Q: IS THERE GOOD (OR BAD) CONTENT IN RELIGIONS?” (easier question to answer tha

“Q: IS THERE GOOD (OR BAD) CONTENT IN RELIGIONS?”
(easier question to answer than you’d think)

Generally speaking, ALL religions teach non-aggression, and means of non-aggression, within the possible trust-order (low to high) of the population. The means of teaching non-aggression in different trust-orders varies. And so the mythologies vary.

As such the universal morality that all religions share is something worth observing because it’s simply a means of non-aggression (peaceful cooperation). Religions in the time of religious formation (the age of transformation) all evolved for the same reason: the restoration of civilization, trade, and population after the bronze age collapse.

When religions differ, if they differ by trust order, then some religions are better and some worse.

If they differ in the ritual means of getting there – rituals etc -, that’s usually a derivation of their trust order.

And if they teach differences in responsibility for the commons (evasion of reality, to responsibility within reality) that’s a significant difference as well that we can judge as good or bad.

So, we can judge the good and bad of every religion (and philosophy for that matter). The fact that they provide mindfulness by means of ritual that sedates neuroticism and alienation, by rituals of non-aggression, and rules to preserve non-aggression, doesn’t mean much. People justify what they know.

However, we can rather easily compare good and bad religions. And it looks very similar to good and bad government, good and bad laws, and good and bad economies, and good and bad science and technology.

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