Understanding Religion's Relationship To Human Social Systems

If they're going to spend all that money to enact solutions, why not spend money on real solutions? It's because most people in power ... don't want to solve the problem. The problems of society create two-path opportunities. One path leads to responsible discovery, maturation, and healing. The other path is an opportunity to be righteously violent "champions" against imaginary forces of evil. In fact, we're witnessing a late stage of that path, unfolding right now w/ the Reich of MAGA. Our seats of government are *mostly* occupied by Christians. Granted, many Christians are standing up AGAINST MAGA. But it's a mess their religious culture created. So it's partly their own mess they are trying (and failing) to help clean up. Christians are people trained by their religious culture to: a.) see the world as "US" and "Thems", b.) to imagine a world where libertarian free will is "true" (which gives reli...

It would be a very curious thing, for an unlimited Super-Being to: a.) Preplan an event, and also b.) preplan wanting all humans (ever after) to "know" about that event, But then: c.) make it happen when literally no humans are there to see it actually happen, and yet d.) not bother to preserve enough evidence to compel all minimally-intelligent and minimally-honest reviewers to accept that it happened, nor to e.) Make the scant evidence readily available, at all times, to everyone in the world. Which event? This is where it gets orders of magnitude more bizarre: * One of that Super-Being's multiple personalities (his Daddy Dom personality) * sends his "Son" (submissive boy personality), *[while his radically unforgiving, insecure, ghost voyeur personality just watches], *to impregnate a child [obviously, without *true* consent], * to create a Kosher Meat Puppet [which would NOT be a "person". Also, that hunk of meat would NO...

I understand that "Christianity" is, for the most part, just a very loose theme. For the most part, it's not any one codified set of concepts. Instead, for the most part, it's a "create your own adventure" kind of project. SOME few self-labeled "Christians" are generally nice people. Although, from my own experience and observation, most are not. Nor should we expect them to be, given that they draw their "waters" from a collection of books which celebrate a mystical parental psychopath. Even the "nice" Christian who impressed Penn Gellete with their kindness, ... was acting as a love-bombing groomer for a parasitic religion. He was trying to colonize that atheist's mind. That Cultist was peddling mind-altering drugs to someone he hoped was too naive to realize it. He was trying to hijack Penn's entire life. He was trying to mentally enslave Penn as a cheap and disposable resource. He was trying t...

[First Draft]  Yesterday, Michael Beverly posted this: " @InspiringPhilosophy‬ says, "Christianity ended slavery." This is like a man who's quit beating his wife saying, "I quit beating me wife." Mike and Than's argument is like if this same man, after he stopped beating his wife, declared, "I ended wife beating in the whole world!" Mike and Than are racist bigots -- for those who say I'm too harsh or "can't read their minds" I say this: "They can read books and history and refuse to do so or worse, refuse to be honest about this issue." THAT is what makes them racists." ----- In reply, an "alt" account for an anonymous Christian asked this: "Where's the study that shows it was the intrinsic christianity that is directly responsible? He certainly wouldn't accept this weak correlation for any negative consequence of Christian behavior."   - @goldenalt3166   ==== In reply, I of...