Right. I just mean “well meaning” in the modern sense of trying to base a concept on fact & reason. Religion’s concepts are all based on the divine & revelation. (Which made sense to do pre-enlightenment.) Marx & Crenshaw at least aren’t religious in that way. They’re just wrong.
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I see 'well-meaning' and 'evidence-based' as two entirely different things. Ideally, people will see both as important.
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Got it. Well put.
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Well and ill, like nearly any other human institution.
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If You not obey me, I will turn You into the cockroach - said every witch-doctor ever. You are ignoring earliest roots of the religion.
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That only works after belief is implanted in a group, and it's a strategy that leads mid term to disenfranchisement with the belief. it only works when physical power and religious power go hand in hand, and even then the belief would reveal itself as a facade.
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Similar to how the power accumulated by the church in the renaissance was one of the main factors behind them losing epistemological power; the schisms and later the secularisation of society.
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How exactly it undermine my point? "No-one founds a religion in the attempt to produce something societally damaging & morally abhorrent." Just think of all those gurus who established sects/religions to fuck lots of girls and get rich fast.
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Don't they usually try to use some (warped) version of an already existing religion? The most recent actual founder of a religion I know of is Jospeh Smith Jr, and even that is an offshoot of Christianity. What you mention fits what we call sects here, which are never large
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enough, or hold tenets that are acceptable according to our laws, to be recognized as a religion. Do scammers use religious trappings to con people into giving them money and/or fuck them? Yes. They may even believe their own preaching. Using faith and using religion are two
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different things though. Although something both religious and secular scholars argue about and has been for the last 3000 years or so.
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