Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for...
by x5n1 on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @06:34PM
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It's a difficult line to walk social justice warrior. At the end of the day it's a fact that religion sets up a psychology that is more positive than the mass psychology of the consumer civilization. That part of religion, a psychology that is resistant to the chaos and disappointment of the world is definitely something that's positive about religion and there are no alternatives in other discourses that are equivalent.
Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for...
by sedachv on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @08:01PM
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> That part of religion, a psychology that is resistant to the chaos and disappointment of the world is definitely something that's positive about religion and there are no alternatives in other discourses that are equivalent.
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism or are you trolling?
This kind of moral relativism is exactly part of the problem. Some positions are wrong no matter how many people believe in them. Things like Brexit happen exactly because we choose to tolerate things like religion, giving all the homophobes, creationists, conspiracy theorists, racists, math phobes, etc the idea that their world view is acceptable.