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[–]PeddaKondappa 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

LOL. You can't create a "White religion" anymore than you can create "White mathematics" or "White physics". Religion is religion, just as mathematics is mathematics and physics is physics. It doesn't matter if a mathematician or physicist is European or Indian or Chinese or African; either their ideas/claims are correct or they aren't, and their race or background has no bearing on the correctness of their ideas/claims. You could argue that certain races or sociobiological groups are better at producing mathematical geniuses compared to others, but that doesn't mean mathematics itself is subjective in any way. Likewise, theological claims are either correct or they aren't, and the racial background of great prophets or theologians has no bearing on the correctness or truth value of their claims.

By using terms like "White religion", you are admitting that your view of religion is essentially the same as that of a post-modernist. In this impoverished view, religions are not a reservoir of higher, objective metaphysical truth, but instead are purely subjective man-made creations whose only value (if they have any at all) lies in justifying or facilitating worldly goals.

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    Religion is all based on faith though and many claims and rules are arbitrary. What is so transcendent about forbidding the consumption of pork and shellfish? How do you know the theological claims are true or false if man is imperfect? If we can't know the truth if it was bashed on our heads with a metaphorical sledgehammer why don't we follow a philosophy that has real practical benefits in the real world for our people? I am tired of sucker's payoff reasoning of Christianity where we must tolerate oppression and weakness because God wills it. Faith is meaningless unless it is backed with evidence.

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          [–]Marginotions 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          I try to refute the naysayers to USSLI's initiative... I'm well experienced in thoughts along this line, see Survey of Religion-themed posts by u\acloudrift (reddit username)

          Our blessed prophet u/USSLibertyIncident is just having some fun vs religion, similar to r/SpeculativeEvolution vs evolution. It's just a creative way to play with the ideas of an old genre, except evolution is scientific and religion is political/sociological, thus more open to fudging and corruption. I'll be quick to admit science is corruptible too, but only when the political/sociological opponents of truth are behind the flaky stuff, like IPCC and AGW. Let's join in and Imagine we aren't being fudged by a Globalist Agenda for a NWO, with 'no religion too'. LoL.