Most of the theists I’ve spoken to don’t really entirely believe in their religion, they say they just need something to believe in. If it provides them peace and comfort, I guess it should be fine.
This is certainly the obstacle I had to overcome going from a more spiritually minded agnosticism to a purer naturalism. I didn’t want to confront my inevitable death and ultimate insignificance. It was especially rough looking at the catastrophic risk posed by the climat crisis and plastic crisis that the human species may not last a few centuries.
As a base argument for theism, yes. Believing in a good Tennant of morals and having a community to back you up and keep you on that moral set of rules is a good idea.
Over thousands of years, we have seen that this can be corrupted and skewed towards individuals points of “morality”. Having your effects on culture and humanity overall.
I think there are benefits to religion, but so many negatives over the course of it’s lifespan to accept it is good for us.
Most of the theists I’ve spoken to don’t really entirely believe in their religion, they say they just need something to believe in. If it provides them peace and comfort, I guess it should be fine.
In some ways one can be envious of people who are able to believe in a higher power than themselves. It certainly has it upsides.
Nah, I don’t envy the capacity for self-inflicted delusion. It could worsen my undoubtedly existing blind spots.
Yeah, that’s why most theists believe in objective reality. They want to think there really is something beyond their own senses. Fools.
This is certainly the obstacle I had to overcome going from a more spiritually minded agnosticism to a purer naturalism. I didn’t want to confront my inevitable death and ultimate insignificance. It was especially rough looking at the catastrophic risk posed by the climat crisis and plastic crisis that the human species may not last a few centuries.
I’m an absurdist now.
As a base argument for theism, yes. Believing in a good Tennant of morals and having a community to back you up and keep you on that moral set of rules is a good idea.
Over thousands of years, we have seen that this can be corrupted and skewed towards individuals points of “morality”. Having your effects on culture and humanity overall.
I think there are benefits to religion, but so many negatives over the course of it’s lifespan to accept it is good for us.