Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme...
by steveBK123 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:17AM
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I make this comment as I observe many of my friends attach meaning to politics that people use to attach to religion, and I find it both ironic & troubling as it comes with all the problems of intolerance & lack of compromise, us vs them, etc.
Disestablishmentarianism by modern democracies means that without a centralized religion to arbitrate Truth, pseudo-religions will expand their power bases to fill in the blanks.
Psychiatry, Social Security, shelters, soup kitchens, hospital and university systems. All were adequately handled by Christendom, until society decided that Christendom was superfluous and hindering their goals.