The Psychology Behind Christian Body Shame

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• zweieuro@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every religion is political. Every religion to some extend is about a ‘way to live life’, disregarding if any specific religion and therefore way is a ‘good’ way to live it. Doing so means you, and fellow people part of the same religion, will try to represent and enable the desired way of life; meaning you politically engage with diverse other groups of interest and people in society trying to justify and defend your way of life.

  Doesn’t really matter if its rooted in a believe or not or in a deity or a fable that got out of hand.

  The only difference between believing in Christian god or believing any other deity you can come up with is: social and law-acceptance in how long people have been claiming to do it.

  Oh, and of course the level of acceptance of oush-back depends on your local religion and societal background

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some (e.g. Yuval Noah Harari) would argue you don’t need deities to make it a religion, it’s just belief without proof that enables a shared value system. An agreement on norms, explicit or implicit. In that interpretation, human rights and money are also religions.

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