dimreepr

Money is a fundamental part of human society, you can't divide it into haves or have not; philosophically it's the same. For instance, Nietcshe assumed that Jesus was fundamentally wrong bc it was based on a slave mentality, and that a greater understanding will logically follow bc we're better than that...

That seems to be the mistake that Hitler made with Nietcshe.

How can it be (bolded mine), that's like saying Jesus ignored the money lender's bc money has nothing to do with our lives, or that Mohamed didn't include it in Shariah laws. Dialectic materialism is an excuse, not a reason.

Marxism is a philosophy based on the economic 'false' god, money, and the potential for it to be our downfall. A secular religion depends on your definition of religion, a secular society is certainly capable of a dogmatic faith in it's doctrine. Pretty sure. Islam seems a closer fit, given shariah law in the banking sector.

But what if it was raining really hard? 😉 Do I really have to explain the joke, given that we fundamentally agree? OK, I sort of agree with you, but since you're talking bollox I can't...

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. 😉