Agree 100%
Comment on White House Faith Office
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 month agoI don’t for a second believe that religion was required for people to have good morals. It was required for control.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
By good morals I mean it came up about the time that people were moving from tribes where they knew everyone personally to settlements where it was impossible to… it sounds weird now but “don’t steal from strangers”, “don’t kill strangers”, “share your harvest with strangers in need” etc. were actually pretty novel ideas which needed to be taught and helped a bunch with ensuring people could co-exist with more people than they had relationships with
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Parents do tge same thing with santa.