dimreepr

Why so extreme? 😉

It was raining 😁

Of course 'they do'...

I wonder, can you spot the deliberate mistake? Your recent downvote tirade is a badge of honour, thanks for that...

If you really want to have fun, try hiding under a bridge...

Indeed, but I have no doubt that most religion's started with ideology, absolute truth is a post hoc ergo propter hoc. At some point Marx will be proved right, most of the argument's up till now is, it hasn't happened yet.

Except a religious confession is a private affair, in order to forgive oneself for being a flawed human; besides I see nothing wrong with editing ones doctrine when confronted with an error.

Are you still here? Why?

But the title "is extremism the default for faith" I'm saying it's not and that extremism is born of the politicos and their faith is used against them to achieve a jihad et al. It reminds me of that WW1 poster "your country needs you" and conscription in WW2.

Sound's more like a politician, not every priest/religious teacher wants to impose anything or fails to follow their chosen moral code; I'll bet the politicos get much closer to 100% bc political morality is very fluid/ambiguous/optional and is mostly for others...

The irony is palpable...

Exactly, they're not content with the life they already have. I think the biggest part, is believing the news that tomorrow has the potential, every day, to be disaterous; if only we had the ability to not watch or care what it says. Imagine the war's we could avoid... Nietsche called it the slave morality But I think his argument fails, bc the master morality can only flourish by disrupting the slave mentality. IOW fear of tomorrow.

When we forget what the word's mean. In the UK the words are "Lest we forget" and in the USA the word's are "MAGA". In the bible it's "an eye for an eye". 😉 I'm not sure why, yet history is replete with examples of the 'so called' sheeple being exploited. But what's so wrong with being content with what we have,? It strikes me that the dangerous part, that is exploited, is that I'm not content with what I have...

it seems nuance is lost on you...

What if one doesn't care?

Most of us will suffer, if we have a soul and nature mostly confirms that; but what if we don't possess that genome, how would god punish us?

Try harder...

Not to my knowledge, you're going to have to explain it 'here', can you do that? Yet you chose too, why? Does a psychopath have a soul, in your world?

I think it's a limit of what's observable/understandable, for instance, we can understand how a dog can smell, but not what it looks like for the dog.

Go on then, give us the 'proof' of it's actual physical existence; Rene Descartes tried but it didn't end in success. I'm a believer in concept of the soul, in certain contexts, but that doesn't make a soul real outside of my brain. You seem to be confusing yourself, or you're being deliberately obtuse, science, in the context of this post, is context free. 😉

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night: But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!" Edna St. Vincent Millay

Indeed...

One day, they'll learn to assimilate and then we'll be buggered...

What book is worth burning?

Oh, this again... I know my reality is absolutely limited to me; but others are watching... 😉