Some atheists complain that religion is all about subjectivity and intuition, but is it really?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Maybe much modern religion is that way, but there's another dimension to religion of following hard rules & believing in capital-T Truth.
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I think that there are both strains - the mystic and the authoritarian. More than that I don't know. I'm mostly ignorant on religion.
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It is food for thought though. How are the mystic and authoritarian elements related? Must they be related?
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Different personality types. Same shit. Historically, in Christianity, men more drawn to setting doctrine in stone...
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& women to mysticism & personal (subjective) piety. We think. Can't be sure coz men writing everything.
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But they wrote a lot about the need to get women away from the mystical & back into formulaic recitations etc.
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I looked at with Margery Kempe using Kristeva. Kristeva is nuts but the symbolic & semiotic in religion break down well to..
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...the doctrinal & structural (rules, authoritarian) & the mystical & spiritual (trances, ecstasies)
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Right. Generalizing in the most sexist way, but women drawn to the spiritual stuff. Men like the logic and rules.
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This is what seems to be consistent. Daphne Hampson Theology & feminism is good on this.
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