I blame NRx (though of course the idea has a long pedigree dating to Machiavelli and Gibbon): "religion is good social technology," and worse, I've seen them say "theology is software code with consequences for computational performance."https://twitter.com/ReforgedSwordo/status/1380024373277552641 …
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Replying to @pompilivs
It *is* good social technology - and Christianity says that it can be judged that way - "Ye shall know them by their fruits" - that's a poetic way of saying the same thing. Cooperation, flourishing and virtue - Christianity is needed for those and those are needed.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @pompilivs
There are an infinite number of ways to prove any true math theorem because it is true and the truth is consistent.
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Nice job independently reinventing the 18th century "religion of nature," but no, this entirely ignores both the revelatory aspect and the fact that Truth is incarnated in a hypostatic prosopon, no small deal. If it's simply about 'cooperation,' any legal code will do.
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No, the "religion of nature" is broken and does not work - it's fruits are the 20th & 21st centuries - therefore it is not a true religion. Legal codes manifestly don't and can't work for cooperation. Why do you have a problem if someone finds Christianity in a different way?
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It seems to me that you're finding virtù, Fortuna and necessitas than Christianity per se. Stale post-facto adaptationism as truth-heuristic. Legal codes manifestly do work, what kind of anti-statism is this? Pair it with some domestic cult and patriarchal hearth, there you go.
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Replying to @pompilivs
Why are you arguing against Christianity? "You can have a functional society entirely without it!" You can't. You certainly aren't getting there with "legal codes" - which was one of Jesus' main messages that the letter of the law without the spirit is worse than nothing.
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Getting nostalgic memories of Jim's blog here. You're too much of a utilitarian to understand this, that's fine. Disengaging.
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I'm not a utilitarian at all. You seem to be unable to understand that different people can be lead to the Truth via different paths.
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