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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
I'm sure it must be comforting in some way to have a belief system constructed entirely of ideas that you pulled out of your ass, but it must be also kind of gross.
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What’s a “belief” system? Faith is a belief. Faith as typically minifested, in organized religion, is objectively ludicrous (except as a palliative/placating/organizing myth). Belief is like morality. The usefulness and borders of it are arbitrary and fluid.
Everything is subjective. If you hate any politician entirely, you’re not thinking very deeply. The correct assessment is to view all of the issues discretely. If we took that approach more often, the debates would be less heated. We’d avoid the risk of demagogues. We’d avoid “belief,” which is the kind thing that enables them.
