Notices by Thaiis Thei 𓁟 (oozenet@mastodon.social), page 2

@lightweight @strypey Your main issue is with protestantism. Not all theistic religions require faith. That is a particularly strange feature of a very few religions, including Christianity. This is protestantism defining your religious experience. The overwhelming majority of religions do not even have the concept of faith.

@strypey @lightweight One way to bring it back would be to model an institution on the medieval ones. i.e. start our own uni with hookers and blackjack! No wait, I mean start an institution without the corporate bit. Fund it by students fees going directly to the academics who teach them, who then use those funds to run things as they choose.

@strypey @lightweight Teaching was how they could afford to do scholarship. The key here is that they were doing it because God, they were on a holy mission. This is the motivation we need to get back. The reaction you are currently having to this statement is exactly why we don't have this any more. Our dominant religions have become so corrupted that we rightfuly revile them. But without a motivation based on service only to truth and love we are not going to solve this problem.

@lightweight @strypey With science alone there is the pursuit of knowledge but there is nothing to moderate the lust for fame or power or riches above all. There is plenty of scientific fraud. Real religion is a method for moderating those things.

@lightweight @strypey True religion is that which is true in every way, in that it produces good humans, in that it is in accordance with the natural world, that it produces flourishing.

@lightweight @strypey That's so sad. True religion does exist. I understand that a lot of people feel as you do because of the way the dominant religions of our culture have traumatised so many people because of their corrupted state. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!

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