Comment on Loosing my religion
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 15 hours agoHonestly this is it. It’s why it’s so stabilizing especially to a medium sized community (too small you get cults, too big you get institutionalization). Everybody agreeing to be weird in a specific way at a specific time at regular intervals has a lot of benefits, literal health benefits even. You definitely get some real fucked up outlier behavior but religion doesn’t have widespread stating power throughout generations for no reason.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Pretty much. People attempting to drive others to atheism when they should be driving people to be less dickish is the most common goof I’ve found. Some people need an ethos and religion helps.
bampop@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The problem with conglomerating your craziness is that whatever it conglomerates around becomes socially and politically powerful, and whatever ethos it presents tends to be deeply flawed. Self reflection and the capacity to doubt your delusions is a really important skill set for jumped up apes trying to function at a higher level, and unfortunately that’s just generally discouraged in religion. The belief system must protect and promote itself. So instead you end up supporting a bunch of pedophiles who want to fuck up the entire world, and getting all giddy about that because you just can’t wait for Jebus to come back and save us all. Still, if we could all agree that when you join a religion you give up your right to vote, perhaps that would be good enough.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
It seems more like an issue with systems of power without proper maintenance cycles, rather than an issue of lined up delusions. The monarchy functioned reasonably well up until it didn’t, democracy functions reasonably well up until it doesn’t, central planning functions reasonably well until it doesn’t, etc…
Without giving systems of power a proper scrub, they fester, always. Almost exclusively because of gradual entrenchment of third party interests, which is the natural state of sociopolitical systems, unfortunately.