Understanding Religion's Relationship To Human Social Systems

  The pre-CE and early CE, Torah-creating, and Torah-centered Israelites were the Iron Age MAGA, in every way. Although for them, it would have been MIGA: Make Israel Great Again . Per the non-eyewitness rumor-based legends found in Christian bibles, Jesus: a.) vouched for the MIGA cult, as God-ordained; - an earth-realm expression of ultimate truth and moral authority. b.) believed in a coming earth-realm kingdom that would be the fulfillment of the MIGA promise. c.) (falsely) prophesied that would happen in the century that we call "the first century". d.) preached that MIGA had 'lost the plot' when MIGA leaders refused to allow for logical exceptions for deciding when a Mosaic law had been broken. e.) polarized by his own economic disadvantages, he developed a class-warfare mentality. Limited by the extremes of his own mental illness (which he didn't realize was mental illness), ... He remains jobless, homeless, destitute, and disempowered. Gi...

My initial response: Young children with a religious background are less able to distinguish between fantasy and reality compared with their secular counterparts. This effect often persists into adulthood. See: Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds Kathleen H. Corriveaua , Eva E. Chenb , Paul L. Harrisc School of Education, Boston University Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Graduate School of Education, Harvard University ------ In reply to me, someone offered this: " Ive had the opposite result. It's the major reason why I'm so good at critical thinking." ----------------- In reply to that, I offer this: Scientific studies aren't saying what always happens. They are merely observing statistically significant causal correlations. Evangelical faith systems pose a significant risk to psychological development. They don't guarantee how every child tur...

  As for reasons to believe in a literal, autonomously self-aware (mind-independent), "Being." ... who makes demands, threats, and promises ... via ancient rumors and modern arguments, ... circulated exclusively via mutually exclusive, competing religions, ... all of whom drown each other out as white noise in their shared sea of competing God-theories, ... I've heard all the claims. Or, at least the claims that are popular enough to have reached me. I've heard all of their respective apologetics. I've heard all the counterapologetics. -Including the counterclaims made by rival versions of "Christianity". I've understood them all, within the limits of my own intellectual and social capacity. At the same time, I am keenly aware that: nobody is ever under any moral obligation to listen long, seriously consider, or even worry about any of it. Is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a measure of a human's moral character, .... to...

Responding to this nonsense:  [ Link ] ---- My initial reply: Here is the test to see if you hold disdain for homosexuals: How would you feel about it if someone said Jesus had been gay? If the idea of it is offensive, then you do, in fact, look down on people for being gay. -- In reply to me, the religious guy in the video said this:  -- " your test is ridiculously stupid. Clearly the Bible teaches that fornication is sinful. And clearly Jesus taught about marriage that a man leaves his mother and father and Cleaves to his wife and the two become one flesh. Playing the mind game of what if Jesus was be gay is equivalent to say he was a refugee or something like that this is just the world talking and the narrative talking. It's just people with itching ears that want to hear what they want to hear. It is extremely easy to know that something is sinful and to love a person regardless of their sin. Unfortunately the so-called gay community does not seem to understand that . Or ...