Post AWWkPyukqicdTAm6F6 by AnnMorris@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AWWkPy77pEvIzFYSsy by flexghost@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T12:19:32Z
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Fox Hosts: stop trying to save the earth. Religion is more important. “For them…this place Earth is it” “They think they can perfect this Earth. Those of us who have faith don’t believe that” “We’re made for religion. So if you don’t have a faith…you’re going to create one. And it could be climate” “And our system, as our founders have said, was made for a religious people”We need to end religion before religion ends us.
(DIR) Post #AWWkPyukqicdTAm6F6 by AnnMorris@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T12:28:34Z
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@flexghost Religion is for weak minded people who can be brainwashed into doing just about anything in the name of their chosen god. History proves it over and over. Those who preach it, are the least religious of the whole.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ04MYTtz3GHHrE by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T13:11:03Z
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@AnnMorris @flexghost I am begging you to read just one adequately researched book in the history of religion before making this claim about what "history proves".
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ0vtLSihjHK2IC by brianbeeler@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T21:03:02Z
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@christinkallama @AnnMorris @flexghost Read "The Denial of Death" by anthropologist and the founder of TMT (Terror Management Theory) Ernest Becker. A great book.Becker postulated, and Sheldon Solomon proved, that everything we do, including religion, is out of our fear of death. That fear has been used by religions for centuries for great evil by promising "ever lasting life" if we do as that religion says to do.Fox et al use religion like a rancher uses a cattle prod. Don't be cattle.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ1cmlz1zsJOI9Q by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T22:16:17Z
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@brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost I will look into the book-thanks for the recommendation. I would note, however, that many religious faiths and communities do not promise everlasting life, nor have they historically. So as a generalization about religion in history, it doesn't hold water.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ2GUOMn3rRy02K by brianbeeler@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T22:44:12Z
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@christinkallama @AnnMorris @flexghost Nuance is difficult in 500 chars. Keep that in mind when reading and replying to posts.Some religions are benign like Jainism, Daoism and most forms of Buddhism. Some are definitely not benign where followers may be asked to perform evil acts against their fellow man.I don't think reasonable people advocate for the ending of all religions, just most because most religions want everyone to do and believe as they do. And those that don't are punished.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ2r0Cbztgh39wu by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T22:51:29Z
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@brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost I agree nuance is difficult, that doesn't mean it isn't important.For example, "religion" is an abstract concept - it can't do or want anything. Certain members of certain religious communities may want everyone to believe and embody certain core ideas - but only in very specific historical circumstances have those requirements been imposed on the population at large, rather than on members of the community.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ3jwuJwwR6l2au by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T22:55:36Z
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@brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost Many religious communities prohibit non-members from participating in their practices, rather than demanding that they do. Furthermore, there is often considerable disagreement within religious communities about what the priorities/application of religious principles should be - in many cases, disagreement tolerated among people who regard themselves as co-religionists.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ4bThIlf77nn1s by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T23:00:14Z
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@brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost Understanding "religion" as a set of public pronouncements by people claiming the mantle of religious authority, that then produces indoctrination among followers who can't think for themselves, is not just oversimplifying religion (*all* religions) - it is a demonstratively false idea of religion as historical practice. You've lost so much nuance you're wrong.
(DIR) Post #AWWkQ5Z27sPG5pfLrE by christinkallama@mastodon.social
2023-06-05T23:07:47Z
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@brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost Fortunately, there is a way to include the needed nuance even within the confines of microblogging - just be a bit more specific about what religious community you are talking about. E.g., "contemporary white American evangelicals" "Second Temple-era Jewish men" "Hanafi jurists in late Ottoman Egypt". It contextualizes the (very real) threats that certain religious communities and ideas pose, without taking up the fundamentalist trick of demonization.
(DIR) Post #AWWl3LKfQx9gI7fFOC by Soy_Magnus@detroitriotcity.com
2023-06-09T21:27:59.345094Z
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@christinkallama @brianbeeler @AnnMorris @flexghost masto niggers. Nice