Comment on My Religion

• treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Your statement dodges the point in many ways.

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• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In theory, yes

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like what? I can understand something like cannibalism and incest resulting in some diseases, which is fair, although they’re not exclusive to religion. But most typical religious taboos are harmless and arguably more harmful to society for no good reason.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can understand something like cannibalism and incest resulting in some diseases, which is fair, although they’re not exclusive to religion.

    They don’t need to be. Religious and secular moral codes regularly inform one another.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you have examples? If that were true, religious taboos would be more rational.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Do you have examples?

        Medicalized secular acceptance/resistance toward vaccination has been picked up by religious organizations and turned into a sectarian belief.

        The NIH even had a study illustrating how outreach to religious leadership heavily impacted how communities adopted vaccination.

        I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism

        Virtually every modern world religion has a stated position on murder generally speaking, human sacrifice specifically, and dietary taboos around cannibalism.

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• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Define “social harm”.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Harm inflicted across the general public, either to particular individual victims or as a negative externality experienced universally.

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