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Posted by
Intomorrow on 02/05 at 11:08 PM
“We might mock the idea of confession and absolution in our modern world. Why would we need to tell people about how we broke the rules created by a non-existent being? So instead we spend large amounts of money paying therapists to listen to our tales of maladjusted woe and tell us that we are still OK.”
Now you’re cooking with gas. Going beyond that, religion is as close as we have come to socialism, but then all the more reason for a libertarian to dislike religion and socialism in equal measure 
Posted by
Pastor_Alex on 02/06 at 12:27 AM
I would suggest that painting generalizations is a dangerous game. Not all religions approach anything like socialist values, though some do. If we are going to move beyond chasing the ‘next big thing’ like six year olds after a soccer ball, we will need to think carefully before we make assumptions. Then we will need to test our assumptions to see if they hold true.
Life is complicated. So, while I have no difficulties annoying libertarians, I will do so when it seems that it is necessary for their enlightenment. I have also been known to annoy socialist and the religious.
Having said that, I do suggest that the scripture do not support either capitalism or socialism, but an economy of sufficiency for which we do not yet have a name.
Posted by
Intomorrow on 02/06 at 03:25 PM
To write “religion has been the closest thing to socialism we have had” wasn’t saying much; only that one can join a house of worship and get along fairly well if one swallows one’s pride (there is always what we think but do not voice in pursuit of self-control). However in business you have much stricter rules, if the boss says to wear a tie around your rear end to work, then you wear a tie around your posterior.
Posted by
Lincoln Cannon on 02/08 at 11:44 AM
Alex, I agree that ritual (and associated psychological affects) is analogous to the technological acts we anticipate for enhancement. Religion has long anticipated transfiguration and resurrection beyond present notions of death. Those too will be rituals.
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