| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["Society"],"appCategory":"Society","appTitle":"What is your opinion about religion,is it a curse to the society or it is actually a blessing?","appBody":"<p>The answer to your question depends on one's definition of \"religion.\"</p>\n<p>Most of the people I know are devote atheists. Atheists tend to define religion as everything that people believe that is not true.</p>\n<p>To most atheists, religion is a synonym for superstition.</p>\n<p>If religion refers to every mistaken belief in history; then clearly religion is a bad thing.</p>\n<p>Of course, this is a stupid definition. I will define religion as a belief system.</p>\n<p>In classical thought religion included thoughts about ethics, civics and social justice.</p>\n<p>The question of religion was largely about how people and communities established their priorities.</p>\n<p>Rulers in Europe believed in a top down approach. The US founders thought it better for individuals and local communities to set their priorities.</p>\n<p>The Founders belief in freedom of religion was largely a belief that priorities should be established at a local level.</p>\n<p>The Monarchy was aghast at this idea. Radical thinkers in the 1800s tried to create new belief systems that would restore the power of the state. In the 1800s there was a great deal of interest in creating new religions. Many of these new religions turned into top heavy cults.</p>\n<p>Thinkers like Feuerbach and Marx came up with the idea of using radical anti-religion as the foundation for a new state.</p>\n<p>This approach is fundamentally paradoxical as is evident with my simple definition of religion as a belief system.</p>\n<p>Radical anti-religion is a belief-system that belief systems are fundamentally wrong.</p>\n<p>The radicals are employing a very base logical structure that combines a self-reference with a negation. Some call this argument technique \"dialectics.\"</p>\n<p>The simplest form of this argument is:</p>\n<p>\"This sentence is false.\"</p>\n<p>See how clever the argument is? The sentence negates itself which makes it true, which negates itself and makes it true.</p>\n<p>Atheism is a belief-system that belief systems are wrong.</p>\n<p>Adherents of the dialectic often gain a sense of transcendence from their belief that beliefs are wrong. Atheists often think that they have transcended society and history. They then develop a condescending view of the world. The funny thing, is they also end up falling for stupid ideologies.</p>\n<p>Marx used the dialectics to convince people to elevate the state and party to the position of god. Radical atheists have a tendency to support strong man leaders. They have been the cause of many of the worst attrocities in the history of mankind.</p>\n<p>But lets get back to the question at hand. \"Is religion a curse or a blessing?\"</p>\n<p>If one sees religion simply as a synonym of superstition; then, of course, it is as bad as superstition.</p>\n<p>If one defined religion as a belief system; then one finds themselves faced with the question: Is is possible for a thinking person to go through life without ever thinking?</p>\n<p>If religion is a belief system; then the question arises as to which is the best belief system.</p>\n<p>Radical atheism is paradoxical. It is a belief system that belief systems are wrong. Adherents of this religion tend to lead people in negative directions.</p>\n<p>In its short history, radical atheism has laid waste to nations and led directly to hundreds of millions of deaths. </p>\n<p>The question does not lead to a clear answer it simple brings up questions about how one defines the terms in the question.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkbxm4t85","appParentAuthor":"onigaa","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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