I’m not religious but I find it funny how offended all the die hard atheists are because of religious rules. It’s symbols. Maybe the core of those is just to guide one through life with sound advice like endless desire and excess won’t lead to fulfilment and cause suffering like the well beloved bhudda says. Just because your relatives were religious nuts doesn’t mean it’s all pure mind control bullshit.
It is pure mind control though. You can argue that peaceful and civilized societies need individuals who repress and restrict themselves, morally or otherwise, to survive. But that doesn’t change the fact that religion is a mechanism to indoctrinate and assimilate repression. Pure and simple.
Which commandments does it even violate?
I’m not religious but I find it funny how offended all the die hard atheists are because of religious rules. It’s symbols. Maybe the core of those is just to guide one through life with sound advice like endless desire and excess won’t lead to fulfilment and cause suffering like the well beloved bhudda says. Just because your relatives were religious nuts doesn’t mean it’s all pure mind control bullshit.
It is pure mind control though. You can argue that peaceful and civilized societies need individuals who repress and restrict themselves, morally or otherwise, to survive. But that doesn’t change the fact that religion is a mechanism to indoctrinate and assimilate repression. Pure and simple.