Sriram #fundie

Sriram #fundie religionethics.co.uk

I believe that we (many of us...not everybody) have today reached a level of mental discipline and altruism only because of the teachings of religions and the discipline enforced by religions all these centuries. If religions did not exist we would today still be savages, fighting with one another with no sense of universal brotherhood or humanism or self control.

So...you have to thank religions for the discipline enforced on earlier generations ...such that today you have enough self control and sense of justice that you will not commit a fraud or a murder. But having said that, without law enforcement of today, how long this self discipline will last...no one can say.

We all need supervision....even today!

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The discipline enforced by religions have often been "obey or we kill you". How does that lead to altruism?

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It's thanks to religion that many people still are savages, fighting with one another with no sense of universal sisterhood or humanism or self control. Take the Troubles, for example, or the state of most of the Middle East.

So, we certainly don't have to thank religions for altruism. We have evolution as social animals to thank for empathy and organization.

Something like 70 percent of the US population is Christian, while about 85 percent of the Swedish population is non-religious. Are you saying that fewer frauds and murders happen in the US than in Sweden (per capita, of course, as Sweden has just slightly more people than New York City).

Sriram #fundie religionethics.co.uk

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Confused?