IT’S JUST ‘CAUSE YOU’RE WELL INTENTIONED BUT IGNORANT (REALLY)
I’m saying that (a) you don’t need to be taught morality because it’s both in your genes and necessary for survival in existential reality – we have tested it. It’s just true. (b) What you have been taught as a means of obtaining mindfulness can be obtained by many ways, and of those ways you have been taught is one of the worst of them (c) one of the means of teaching such is by conflating the obvious and necessary and unavoidable with superstitious falsehood.
Every religion teaches the same thing using different arguments. These arguments JUSTIFY what exists, by providing a FALSE explanation of what exists in lieu of UNDERSTANDING why it exists.
They do not CAUSE it to exist whatsoever.
What they CAN do, whether by Law (understanding of precise measurements), education (knowledge of general rules), or religion (empathy by storytelling) is increase the precision of those measures, rules, and analogies.
The fact that you have been trained in one religion not ten, and that you understand one moral code not twenty, and understand one legal code, not one hundred, just means you’re ignorant of the alternatives.
That’s all it means. That’s what the evidence shows.
The value of christianity in the west was that it mirrored existing low clannishness because of higher pedomorphism (science) and higher verbal acumen (science) and reduction of friction from the lower clasesses (science). The germanicization of christianity resulted in individual protestantism and action vs replacing community catholicism and submission. And even today protestant countries are far higher trust and less backward and corrupt than catholic countries.
The value of anglo legalism (viking-thinking, anglo-saxon thinking) is that it’s simply personally, commercially, and civically beneficial to demonstrate high trust to others.
The problem with european and american atheism is that it’s NOT atheism but faith in 19th and 20th century pseudoscience. And the evidence is clear that the church (pseudorationalism, supernaturalism) cannot defeat pseudoscience.
So if we are going to defeat pseudoscience, the only method of doing so is truth.
Sorry. That’s all there is.
Either you are defeated by the marxist/postmodernist/democratic secular socialist / universal human rights pseudosciences that were invented (psudo-scientific abrahamism) to exterminate the aristocratic civilizations, or you will use truth (law, eduction, science) to defeat them AND the supernaturalism of ancient abrahamism (judaism, christianity, islamism)
You cannot use a more primitive form of lie (religion) to defeat a more advanced form of lie (pseudoscience).
THat’s what the evidence is.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-26 10:31:00 UTC