Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions.
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So long as they’re not moving on to a new one, good. Religion is a plague on human society. We don’t need it holding us back.
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Childhood - indoctrinated religion
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Ha ha "pew research"
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Not me. I was born a snake handler and I’ll die a snake handler.
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So long as they’re not moving on to a new one, good. Religion is a plague on human society. We don’t need it holding us back.
Depends on the religion. But as a whole, what we thing of "religions", are definitely a net negative with our knowledge of the world. We no longer need to rely on superstition to survive.
Some religions are more a way of life rather than a structured creator being system with strict rules and exclusionary politics. Religions like Christianity/Judaism/Islam are quite different from Shinto or Buddhism for instance.
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Not me. I was born a snake handler and I’ll die a snake handler.
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Depends on the religion. But as a whole, what we thing of "religions", are definitely a net negative with our knowledge of the world. We no longer need to rely on superstition to survive.
Some religions are more a way of life rather than a structured creator being system with strict rules and exclusionary politics. Religions like Christianity/Judaism/Islam are quite different from Shinto or Buddhism for instance.
There's still some toxicity around a Buddhism at least. Living in SEA I now know several people who are really turned off by the practices and beliefs of their family's religion, Buddhism, from the way all troubles are explained away as karma to neurodiversity and Learning Differences being hidden because that would mean that person did something bad in their past life.
I used to think Buddhism specifically was the "good" religion that's more like philosophy, but spending more time with people who grew up deep in Buddhism has made me see there's really more to the community and it's beliefs and practices than I thought.
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Just like they leave behind their other imaginary friends
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There's still some toxicity around a Buddhism at least. Living in SEA I now know several people who are really turned off by the practices and beliefs of their family's religion, Buddhism, from the way all troubles are explained away as karma to neurodiversity and Learning Differences being hidden because that would mean that person did something bad in their past life.
I used to think Buddhism specifically was the "good" religion that's more like philosophy, but spending more time with people who grew up deep in Buddhism has made me see there's really more to the community and it's beliefs and practices than I thought.
Like all religion, it can be messed up and carried on.
Sort of like when the winter solstice turned into “dead and buried three days, then rose again” and a bunch of zombie religions are still around.
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So long as they’re not moving on to a new one, good. Religion is a plague on human society. We don’t need it holding us back.
Jedi religion rose dramatically from 1900 to today.
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The thing I notice is there’s not really a good substitute for talking about the big questions yet.
I mean, I’m not missing any religion, but practically there was an hour or so a week dedicated specifically to thinking and talking about life from a non-materialistic perspective, and I think a lot of people now just - never do.
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Depends on the religion. But as a whole, what we thing of "religions", are definitely a net negative with our knowledge of the world. We no longer need to rely on superstition to survive.
Some religions are more a way of life rather than a structured creator being system with strict rules and exclusionary politics. Religions like Christianity/Judaism/Islam are quite different from Shinto or Buddhism for instance.
Just because they aren't theist doesn't mean they don't have horrible backwards teachings. Most people are good without religion. Religion creates situations where otherwise good people do evil, because they're told it is actually good.
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Christianity is basically just a pedophile ring at this point
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Christianity is basically just a pedophile ring at this point
That's a bit unfair to the people who are in just for the homophobia
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That's a bit unfair to the people who are in just for the homophobia
Or trans phobia
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The thing I notice is there’s not really a good substitute for talking about the big questions yet.
I mean, I’m not missing any religion, but practically there was an hour or so a week dedicated specifically to thinking and talking about life from a non-materialistic perspective, and I think a lot of people now just - never do.
Isn't that what we do on lemmy?
