Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September

Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:30PM (#27376595)

Secular religion is an oxymoron. Sure, the secular world is slowly being taken over by "new" belief systems, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Hell, religion isn't necessarily a bad thing. But anything drastically new is taken as a threat, and it would seem that one aspect of the modern "culture war" phenomena is the perceived threat of these new belief systems encroaching on old belief systems.

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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by version_five on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:10AM (#27381618)

I think the sense is which the GP is using secular is to roughly mean atheistic faith. The new movements we see with a religious characteristic are not based on a deity but otherwise have all of the hallmarks or a religious system (clergy, faith, heretics, threat of damnation, etc).

I actually think atheistic faith is pretty scary: its sortof a psychopathic version of theism, where instead of a supreme being that generally has a conscious and can be reasoned with (within the religious mythology), atheistic faith presents itself as some kind of objective fact, with no central leader or responsible parties.

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Re:Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starti... by 0xbadcafebee on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#27384206)

> all of the hallmarks or a religious system (clergy, faith, heretics, threat of damnation, etc)

which is a very Western/Abrahamic view of religion.

Belief is always scary to the Observer, and comforting to the Believer. the more sure the Believer is, the more scared the Observer gets, because they perceive more threat. theist and atheist Believers are more alike than they are different.

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