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0 pointsspopejoy10y ago0 comments

Religion is never going anywhere, despite your pleas.

And in case you forgot, secularists brought us the most violent conflicts in history, just last century. US slavery didn't need religion, nor did Apartheid. nor climate change or the atomic bomb. Pacifism is pretty much a religious concept, exclusively so until relatively recent human history.

I don't really see how fanatic rationalism has any leg to stand on, really.

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planck0110y ago

> secularists brought us the most violent conflicts in history

They didn't do this 'because of secularism' and that's a big difference. They tried to replace religion with other dogma's en use the religious control for their own purpose. Sure, being a secularist doesn't make you good or non-evil. But without dogmas it will be pretty hard to convince others to blow themselves up for your evil plans.

No one ever committed mass shooting while shouting 'in the name of science', or 'I hate you because I am a securalist.'

spopejoyOP10y ago

Ideologies like Nationalism, Fascism are hardly "religion replacements" but genuine products of the Enlightenment. Nobody forced us to wipe out Native Americans, but there was ample rationalization from the West's most sensitive thinkers.

People HAVE committed and OFTEN commit mass shootings while shouting "For the Fatherland" or some other nationalist/racist slogan. Last I checked the body count is higher.

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