RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
October 17, 2023 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2023 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's the dilemma. We propose that people are indoctrinated through education. By people telling them stuff. We also, apparently, think that -other- people telling them -other- stuff is different, and the solution to the problem that people telling people stuff creates. We can and do think for ourselves -even in ignorance, regardless of whether or not those thoughts are "free" in the sense of free will. In the case of ignorance, we just think for ourselves over a more limited field - and we own the results. We think about the shit we know, and not the shit we don't.
Religious ideation isn't fundamentally wrong or illogical or emotional, even you think that there's a better way as you criticize others notions of better ways. The current crop of religions are really bad representatives of the set, is all. Credit where credit is due. They put in the work to be horrible, because they think that the world really should be horrible. More horrible than it is, even, in a funhouse mirror equivalence.
Religious ideation isn't fundamentally wrong or illogical or emotional, even you think that there's a better way as you criticize others notions of better ways. The current crop of religions are really bad representatives of the set, is all. Credit where credit is due. They put in the work to be horrible, because they think that the world really should be horrible. More horrible than it is, even, in a funhouse mirror equivalence.
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