Completely true. Politics is not a replacement for religion at all. Part of what religion gives people is a value system that can guide their actions (not that this has always worked out well at all either). When people swap religious ideology for a political ideology, it's often a replacement for that. But even a religious person benefi…
Completely true. Politics is not a replacement for religion at all. Part of what religion gives people is a value system that can guide their actions (not that this has always worked out well at all either). When people swap religious ideology for a political ideology, it's often a replacement for that. But even a religious person benefits from consciously thinking through what they value and why.
I think we're still in some primitive post-religion cultural phase where we don't understand what religion largely does for humans now that the faith claims are demonstrably false and we live in a pluralistic society that doesn't enable a religious majority to force everyone to abide.
Im choosing to remain optimistic, and to believe that this is the beginning of technology democratizing everything. A world with no numbskull bureaucrats playing stupid games to win stupid prizes, and harming millions in the process. Dreamy.
Completely true. Politics is not a replacement for religion at all. Part of what religion gives people is a value system that can guide their actions (not that this has always worked out well at all either). When people swap religious ideology for a political ideology, it's often a replacement for that. But even a religious person benefits from consciously thinking through what they value and why.
I think we're still in some primitive post-religion cultural phase where we don't understand what religion largely does for humans now that the faith claims are demonstrably false and we live in a pluralistic society that doesn't enable a religious majority to force everyone to abide.
Im choosing to remain optimistic, and to believe that this is the beginning of technology democratizing everything. A world with no numbskull bureaucrats playing stupid games to win stupid prizes, and harming millions in the process. Dreamy.
Well I would LOVE that! Dreamy indeed haha.