Only religion can create unquestionable meaning. — Jacykow
I know that everyone has their own combination of opinions but I am interested in this particular connection and why is it so popular. — Jacykow
In other words: religion stops people from caring about changing the status quo or the conditions of this world, because they rely on the promise of the next one. — NKBJ
The religious right does believe in personal responsibility as well as charity in terms of helping one's fellow man. They are in fact more charitable by all measure than their liberal counterpart, from the amount they contribute to charity, the amount they volunteer in their communities, and the extent to which they reach out to those in need. — Hanover
The duty to help others derives as an inherent duty and it is not fulfilled through forced taxation and forced redistribution of wealth. — Hanover
Interpreting the right as uncaring is a leftist opinion not accepted by the right. — Hanover
Then why don't they refuse entitlements? — praxis
I think both sides hold similar opinions of the others. Some think there opponents are malicious, others think they're too dumb to know better.Not uncaring, hoodwinked. — praxis
And like that, all the institutional structure, all the literature and the persecutions against the heretics are erased; until the dogmatic scientist comes to infect and force (!) the undogmatic and tolerant priest to change to his mirror image. Wow! — Πετροκότσυφας
You cannot value what you cannot choose - the right values rising in hierarchies and not needlessly resisting the inevitable collapse of any group to a hierarchy. — Jacykow
I may have overdone it a bit but since materialism doesnt really elevate the individual to a god but that is exactly what the individual becomes: the only source of value. — Jacykow
Organized religion existed before but developed into something truly perverse during and after the Enlightenment. — darthbarracuda
Religion is there, it's just not recognized as religion. — darthbarracuda
If "determinant "thing"" means having an either/or mentality, doctrines, being against heretics etc, then it was a "determinant thing" since Paul's time. If you don't trust my assertions, you can read Paul's Epistles, The Acts of the Apostles, Irenaeus' "Against Heresies" and the rest of the Church Fathers. — Πετροκότσυφας
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