Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by visarga on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:46AM
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> And their "priests" do not claim to be shadow of the divine, and certainly do not threaten them with afterlife.
Oh yes, if you look at the peddlers of righteous outrage we have today, and their continuous infighting, there's no difference. Dare to deviate from the line? Wrongthink! Cancelled! Even their own people fall pray to this as they get accused of not being outraged enough by their comrades.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by datavirtue on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:57AM
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Hmm...not the definition I found. Relativism abounds but it can't be "it depends" all the way down. We at least need to agree on definitions before we start arguing.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by lazysheepherd on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:54PM
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It is not a problem with langauges. For that we have dictionaries. It must be a problem with whatever "relativism" happens to be.
I've searched and took the above defition from the Oxford dictionary before commenting.
Just checked Meriam Webster and Cambridge, of course the words differ, but the meanings seemed functionally equivalent.
Religion is a very precise definition. By which your comment is not only technically wrong but also practically harmful.
Definition of the religion according to dictionary is: "the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."
So no, they are not choosing new religions. And their "priests" do not claim to be shadow of the divine, and certainly do not threaten them with afterlife.