It's not necessarily that weird a take, like the Bible repeatedly describes believing in and worshiping God as "fearing God" I've talked directly to an Orthodox Jewish person who said in his personal opinion using the word "good" for G-d in the modern sense is misleading https://twitter.com/UnknownEnby/status/1255031053204377605 …
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The stereotype that to be a lawyer is to be totally amoral is wrong -- in fact if you didn't have ANY idea of "ought" you couldn't be a lawyer, every lawyer who practices law is fighting in some small way for a worldview, even one they don't actually admit they hold
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But the whole point of your job, what your job actually is, is to work within the "is" of the status quo You tell your client what will *actually happen* if they run a red light, or if they illegally download The Last of Us 2, or if they allow Russia to interfere in an election
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Like in my limited experience a big big part of the job -- the point of being a lawyer, the reason everyone tells you "talk to a lawyer before you do X" -- is to try to readjust a client's expectations between how things *should* work and what actually happens when you do things
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That "lawyering" mindset is very much there in religion, especially Abrahamic religion, rooted in the so-called "ancient Near East covenant" model The Ten Commandments are a contract God makes with Moses as the representative of his people
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The other stuff is there -- a personal emotional relationship with God as parent or lover or object of devotion But the core is the Law "These are the rules, this is how it works, this is the procedure by which we exchange sacrifice and worship for safety and prosperity"
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