>>34639952You’re right. Where I do disagree with you is that successful and powerful countries “cannot” exist with mostly non-religious people. China has been at it for centuries and they weren’t always super shit at it. Most OTHER (non-US) western countries have their religion diluted down to this holiday exists because there is in fact a higher power and they told me to feast and drink til I make more of an ass of myself than acceptable otherwise. Having a unifying force or feeling of comradery is not unusual, we are tribal creatures through and through.
I think that the odds of your view being the “right” one, or even the future of world religion is a joke at best. Sorry but they redpilled you with Santa, kiddo. So, there is no saint. There is no angellic winged people. There is no god, at least from what we can observe and I’m not say this as an opportunity for you to give a “testament”, or in otherwords, some feeling that superimposes atop of human emotions and makes them more than chemical reactions to required tasks and ideas of recreation.
Does doing good need to come from “God”, hell no. It’s up to us to do good, we should hold ourselves accountable if we value Good. The feeling that people will be lazy and selfish is true, and holier-than-thou priest feeders can be called the pinnacle of disappointment. Gathering to talk about good is harder than going out for the same hours and in the same numbers to do good. Turns out when it comes down to people laboring over something without reward for others it becomes clear that people HATE IT, who knew. I’d say any volunteer is miles past any philosophmore that believes there are any real answers coming from the church leader. Intellualizations of good are useless, do good or shut up. No one should be praising for building up a mean nut two-maybe-theee days before church because you are a holy man. Or reward you for telling the truth. Or drinking but never getting drunk. Taste truth