I’m very open to the argument that Christianity is the best available totalizing narrative and that its putative replacements have been a string of pseudo-secular religions with deleterious consequences.
TFW you realize a key benefit of old religions is they protect you from new cults. Like a memetic immune system.
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Wait until you realize it is true. That'll really knock your socks off.
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Dude I understand the truth of it. That's why I switched from rabid atheist to respectful agnostic....
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Well put
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They also halt progress. Does a dogmatic belief increase gullibility?
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Except that they're really old immune systems, and don't actually defend people from modern virulent memes selected from a much more massive and connected population. Look at all the Christians who went for Trump. How many of the remaining went SJW?
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My millennial evangelical acquaintances seem to have gotten “woker” (they are mostly Asian though). I wonder if the “official” evangelical position on homosexuality will also change in the future, as a result of this Great Awokening...
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That is an excellent point. Our default status is creating cults.
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It's not the entire memetic immune system. Akin to part of, like interferon. It makes you memetic immune system strong against new religions/cults. Other methods available.
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I don't think that is evidenced by the perpetual schisms. The old cults often give rise to and succour to the new.
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