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[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

They used to say religion is the opiate of the masses, but I think opiates are the opiates of the masses...

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Religion can bring geniuine happiness, these substances cannot.

Another fine example of scientific fundamentalism having far too much faith in itself.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Religion can bring geniuine happiness

I'd agree for some spirituality can bring peace, but religion is just the dogma of spirituality imo

[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fair enough, I suppose I keep mistaking one for the other.

Easy to do one you've gone from one to the other and see relatively no difference between the two (at least not as far as my concern for what other people choose to believe, that is).

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I completely agree.

ALSO, if I may quote my writing from an open source Wikipedia article:

" Open science uses the scientific method as a process of open discovery of shared verifiable knowledge, whereas proprietary science is privately developed by corporations and organizations yet their "scientific" processes and research are not publicly shared (or are obscured behind paywalls or published in expensive private journals), therefore unverifiable as legitimate forcing the public to have "faith" in their privatized science and "trust" that rigorous studies have been and are conducted, proper precautions taken, adequate warnings given, and that the results are beneficial to individuals, society, and the environment - as well as serving their private shareholders. Further, we are supposed to "believe" all of the profit driven marketing, media hype, and propaganda, not to mention the political lobbyists (a soft term for legalized bribery), and trust we are getting the best technology, drugs, medical care, and environmental stewardship while corporate monopolies safely and honestly earn their profits in a world where corporate corruption and status quo war profiteering are business as usual. This obscured or blind faith in corporate science is called Scientism . "

All dogmatism is poison for the mind.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bullshit. Substances can be hella fun. In moderation or otherwise.

Though religion can, like any other device, serve good or bad purposes.

Authentic or fake charity. Authentic or fake morality. Authentic or fake community.

Just as fake feminism has eroded the family unit, so too the loss of community, often held together through religious institutions (cringe), has eroded the family unit and of course the community and of course divided and weakened all the individuals.

I'm all for separation of church and state. I'd rather there be no church nor state.

But before separation of church and state I wanna see separation of BANKS and STATE.

That'd be like separating Siamese twins that share one heart.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Religion is the Santa of the masses. You better be good, you better watch out... Big Brother/Father may or may not be watching you.

Just as you have to keep tuning in to be programmed by the TV, so too, you need to keep attending your church on a weekly basis or the hypnosis programming may wear off.