Atheism was invented by Christians to describe (accuse) anyone not completely buying into their religion and converting.
The flourishing of philosophy and culture in ancient Athens and the Renaissance in Europe have similarities.
Each still had the practice of religion but it was not reactionary and restrictive.
Looking at religion today makes you see that it corresponds to very conservative politics. Especially fascism. The idea that there has to be one right wing to do things.
Atheism was invented by Christians to describe (accuse) anyone not completely buying into their religion and converting.
One reason religion tries to suppress philosophy.
Bertrand Russell at the end of his short book, The Problems of Philosophy (1912):
Philosophy is to be studied, to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
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evince (08-31-2022)
Religion is not the problem
Organizing religion so that someone can be the king of the religion is the problem
Erasmus maintained that being a good Christian meant just living your life in emulation of the example Jesus set.
Any institution that becomes an arm of the State tends to be conservative. That applies to State churches, the military, police, the corporate powers, the oligarchs.
evince (09-01-2022)
It’s always organized so some one can have power over the believers
While the believers claim god is their only king
All human institutions have organization and leaders. Greenpeace, ACLU, and Red Cross have organization, bureaucracy, leaders.
I'm not sure why organization and leaders in a church is evil, while it's not in Amnesty International and Red Cross.
It's the type of leadership and nature of organization that matter. The most democratic and horizontally organized religious organization I have ever had experience with are the Quakers.
evince (09-01-2022)
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