Yes all the wonderful cultural aspects! Like the inquisition, book burnings, destruction of local temples, and changing their story to fit better into all the new conquered territories 🤷♂️
The cultural impact of any religion is mass control.
Dunno, I like the idea of meeting up with my neighbours in my local community once a week, singing in harmony with them, and then arranging small community projects to better the area
(I’m obviously skipping over the judgement of others, the financing, the general right-wing narratives that are peddled, the power structures and the abuse that comes with it)
I’m not religious, so the closest thing I have is volunteering at my local park once a week and working alongside a few of my locals, and though it’s nice and we’re definitely doing a universal good for the area… I just wish there were more people to actually make it feel like a proper community
I was speaking with a colleague in the US, and he mentioned that he was brought up Mormon (and thankfully escaped), but he missed the community aspect of it and so he joined a Unitarian church, which as far as I understand it brings all the community benefits of church groups but basically ignores any bible preaching. It sounds nice.
You can respect the cultural aspect of a religion without respecting the “facts” it claims.
Yes all the wonderful cultural aspects! Like the inquisition, book burnings, destruction of local temples, and changing their story to fit better into all the new conquered territories 🤷♂️
The cultural impact of any religion is mass control.
You can, I guess. Culture is shaped by beliefs significantly tho. Dumb beliefs often result in dumb culture.
Dunno, I like the idea of meeting up with my neighbours in my local community once a week, singing in harmony with them, and then arranging small community projects to better the area
(I’m obviously skipping over the judgement of others, the financing, the general right-wing narratives that are peddled, the power structures and the abuse that comes with it)
I’m not religious, so the closest thing I have is volunteering at my local park once a week and working alongside a few of my locals, and though it’s nice and we’re definitely doing a universal good for the area… I just wish there were more people to actually make it feel like a proper community
I was speaking with a colleague in the US, and he mentioned that he was brought up Mormon (and thankfully escaped), but he missed the community aspect of it and so he joined a Unitarian church, which as far as I understand it brings all the community benefits of church groups but basically ignores any bible preaching. It sounds nice.