by UnHoly Bible » Tue May 23, 2017 1:05 am
I think a problem with the atheist movement is it doesn't really focus at this point on giving people a legitimate way to find meaning/reasons to live. Without that, an atheist easily gets disillusioned when they're forced to ask questions like "Why should I suffer?" and "How can I be released from/ Gain the strength to endure/ my suffering?" Its also clear that major religions can't just go away, but surely they can be updated so that when people are raising their kids in the religion, they are taught how to interpret the metaphysical concepts in their holy texts properly, because they do carry clear meaning to them, and studying them in a certain way can allow people to find "god", so to speak, in the context of their own experiences of life. How to get rid of the crazies who use holy texts as a tool for their own selfish/whatever gains? IDK, maybe redefine religious freedoms so that the crackpot-led sects of various religions that let their metaphysical realities seep into their objective realities can be cracked down upon or at the least limited in some ways. Call me a fascist or whatever, but Im just saying I think all of these ancient religions are fine and shouldn't be banned ( we've seen the consequences of that before), but its clear what we're defining religious freedom as now is limiting a lot more individual freedom than it is creating.
tl;dr, atheists and theists/deists/etc can easily work together, if the right people come about who actually understand why religion exists and is perfectly fine as a way of life, and why atheism can be perfectly good to as a way of life , and have many many dialogues, the two can co-exist. I think this may be beginning to occur
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