Religion involves doublethink and is orwellian.

>>8359776
How so?

>>8359776
Turned away from religion when I read.the passage on how in Christ women, men, Jews, etc are the same

Pure SJW nonsense

>>8359790
Taught from birth that it's better to believe than have skepticism. Any religious person who's honest with themselves will tell you belief in god is not rational. It's simultaneously having two contradictory realities and accepting one because it suites the doctrines which you're supposed to.

>>8359836
Believing in God isn't contrary to any other beliefs I hold.

>>8359900
It would be if you think God is the source of any of the other beliefs you hold.

>>8359776
>Religion involves nothink
Fixed for you.

>>8359909
I don't agree

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>people think they are smart for denying the existence of a deity
>they haven't even contemplated the existence of the metaphysical god

>>8359776
Uh-huh, and?

Religion is the main propulsor for our current ideas about representation and the arts. Our politics since 20th century totalitarianism are influenced by image in varying degrees ever since, therefore, representations.

Every aspect of political thinking is permeated by images, therefore, is only natural the phenomenons that arise in religious thought shall arise in politics as well.

>>8360017
>Religion is the main propulsor for our current ideas about representation and the arts
What the fuck? How?

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All ideology is

I wish that all religious people would fall into a volcano.

>>8360031
The very notion we have about what "art" is comes from Vasari (and other renaissance artists and writers) and they were mainly evaluating religious works. I recommend you Belting's Likeness and Presece and Didi-Hubermann's Confronting Images, but rest assured, without the catholic church's influence, we wouldn't think of art as we do today.

>>8359986
>Not knowing the difference between classical theism and believing in sky fairies

>>8359776
Humanity involves doublethink and is Orwellian

>>8360046
Yeah, without the Catholic church, we wouldn't think of art as we do today, and we wouldn't have had nothing but religious paintings in the middle ages. We probably would be much more modern in our forms of art, perhaps we would have reached modernist art much earlier.

>>8359900
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

You're doublethinking religion and you're orwellian.

>>8359791
why not become a Jew or Muslim then?

>>8360017
t. Carl Schmitt

>>8359936
yup
spiritual theory and practice are highly paradoxical. They cannot be thought out except in extremely superficial form and should be regarded as matters of experience only when evaluated practically as activities one may or may not wish to engage in.

>>8359909
if you think God is a cause of your beliefs then yet
I you regard God as acausal and prior to and transcending mere belief then no

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I pretty much despise any religious or non religious person trying to tell the other guy why they believe in what they do.

there is probably more variety for reasons than one person has contemplated and it just shows me what a dense stupidass you are.

I will say there are plenty of good and bad reasons for either.