#société #religion #society #athéisme #atheism
https://twitter.com/SoleilApostasie/status/1634436169424424961
Bears enter CSI school kitchen and eat food. Those atheists rather than praying to Jesus have given complaint to forest department.
#CSI #Christianity #atheism #christiansAreAtheists #religion #TamilNadu #India
"First, there is neither a God nor a devil; secondly, magistrates are not to be valued, churches are to be despised, and priests rejected; thirdly, instead of magistrates and priests, we have learning and reason, which, joined with conscience, teach us to live honestly, to hurt no man, and to give every one his due; fourthly, matrimony does not differ from fornication; fifthly, there is but one life, which is this, after which there are neither rewards nor punishments; the holy Scripture is inconsistent with itself."
-Micrcelii syntagma historic ecclesiasticce [1699]
https://c4ss.org/content/57517
Unsurprisingly, the vast contingent of radical socialists, anarchists, and religious scholars from a diversity of backgrounds have a lot of trouble interacting with anti-theists in any serious capacity, as it usually becomes clear that these folks don’t actually care about nuanced engagement with historical record, religious studies, or anthropology. Most often, anti-theism is a misplaced vitriolic reaction to the violence committed by the Church, its abusive Clergy, and its vigilante crusaders that places the blame not on the institutions and individuals involved, but the God they claim to understand.
To be blunt: anti-theists take reactionary zealots at their word when they claim to have read the Bible accurately and insist they’re doing God’s work. This is an abjectly awful way to engage critically with religious texts from any perspective. It affirms the divine status of holy texts, rather than regarding them simply as texts; it grants legitimacy to traditionalists who claim to know the will of God; it implies that Christian nationalism is as good for Christians as it claims to be (a claim falsified by the most cursory glance at the history of religious governance); and it ignores the actual reason why things like traditionalism, biblical literalism, and dogmatism are bad. Secular reactionaries push the exact same bullshit and appeal to the exact same audience as Televangelists and alt-lite youth pastors because, fun fact, all of them are fucking liars.
Rationalist should be brave enough to die for humanity to get freed from religion https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1117164727/author-salman-rushdie-was-attacked-on-a-lecture-stage-in-new-york
A good read about #atheism #religion #Judaism #fictionalism #belief
Fictionalism, according to the philosophy professor Scott Hershovitz, means pretending to follow a set of beliefs in order to reap the benefits of a set of actions. In a recent New York Times essay, he asks why he continues to fast on Yom Kippur and observe Passover when he doesn’t believe in God. The short answer, he writes, is this: “It’s just what we Jews do, I might have said; it keeps me connected to a community that I value.”
The longer answer is a defense of, well, pretending: “When it feels like the world is falling apart, I seek refuge in religious rituals — but not because I believe my prayers will be answered,” he writes. “The prayers we say in synagogue remind me that evil has always been with us but that people persevere, survive and even thrive. I take my kids [to synagogue] so that they feel connected to that tradition, so that they know the world has been falling apart from the start — and that there’s beauty in trying to put it back together.”
Fictionalism is also a rebuke to the “New Atheists” of a few years back, who found religion to be meaningless ritual centered on a non-existent deity. By contrast, Alain de Botton, in his book “Religion for Atheists,” described the kinds of things atheists could actually learn from religions. Religion offers “morality, guidance, and consolation.” Religions build a sense of community, create enduring relationships, offer means to escape the constant appeals of media and consumerism, and create rituals and institutions to address our emotional needs.
“The error of modern atheism has been to overlook how many sides of the faiths remain relevant even after their central tenets have been dismissed,” he writes.
Do any users also notice that https://atheistforums.org/ is down? I have a hunch that it’s down for good which fucking sucks because I was just starting to get used to it as my new online forum. It also doesn’t help that https://www.atheistforums.com/ is relatively vacant.
There are some ten thousand extant religious sects---each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it completely wrong, but are instruments of evil, besides. None of the ten thousand has yet persuaded me to make the requisite leap of faith. In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain---which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief.
---Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven (A Story of Violent Faith)
Bonjour tout le monde, je suis #nouveauici. Mes centres d'intérêt sont #ceramics, #ceramicsandpottery, #claythrowing et #céramique #ceramica #atheism #athéisme #cuisine
Je suis de retour ici après quelques années d'absence. J'étais plutôt familier de Friendica.
A bientôt
