Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by engineeringwoke on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:47AM
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Not OP, but yes, I think that any consumer of organized religion is doing it because fairy tales are easier than life and death is scary. That is all it really is, right?
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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by kylebyproxy on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:13AM
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IMO, that's the most insidious aspect of organized religion. Rather than acknowledging death as an engineering problem to be solved and overcome, it teaches people to embrace death and conditions followers to not even consider fighting back.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by spaced-out on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:25PM
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Exactly this. Humanity is reaching the point where we can truly transcend our biological limitations, yet many follow ideologies that tell them to not even consider this, and instead put their faith in some sort of magical after-death utopia obviously born our of generations of wishful thinking.
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by KMag on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:37AM
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Not all religions posit an afterlife.
Though, I guess a meaningless death is scarier than death, and nearly all religions are attempts to form meaning in life when there's no empirically obvious meaning.