✅ Promete la posibilidad de algún tipo de futuro esplendoroso
✅ Entrega un sistema de valores y prioridades a los que apegarse para llegar a este futuro
✅ Establece criterios para diferenciar cosas que están bien y mal con respecto a estos valores
✅ Habla de fuerzas, mecanismos o entidades que son más importantes y poderosas que el individuo pero que no son del todo comprendidas
✅ Cuenta con una serie de pensamientos y actividades grupales que hay que compartir y llevar a cabo (rituales) por el bien propio y de los demás.
✅ Tiene una serie de pensamientos prohibidos, que por solamente creerlos se está haciendo un mal. Peor incluso es hablarlos.
✅ Genera una serie de autoridades en su comunidad de fieles, con líderes de pensamiento que pueden orientarnos en la correcta interpretación de sus creencias y cómo aplican caso a caso.
✅ Motiva a algunas personas a hacer grandes sacrificios o cometer actos que en su ausencia serían impensables.
✅ Forma parte fundamental de la identidad individual y grupal de la gente. Las personas no meramente creen en su religión/ideología. Son de una religión.
✅ Genera fricciones y agresiones entre sus creyentes y aquell@s que no comparten sus valores, percibiéndolos contrarios a sus objetivos, incluso por el hecho de sólo creer en cosas incompatibles
✅ Cuenta con mensajeros/profetas que fueron capaces de comunicar su credo, figuras fundacionales sagradas que son objeto de veneración y una historia de personas que se consideran ejemplos a seguir de sus fieles, frecuentemente mártires que sufrieron por sus convicciones o combatieron por difundir el credo/su práctica.
✅ Cuenta con miembros que son incapaces de aceptar que puede existir una diferencia entre la visión de mundo que se genera a partir de sus creencias y la realidad
✅ Hace que muchos de sus fieles se sientan personalmente atacados si sus creencias si quiera se ponen en duda como una verdad innegable
I'm not a christian, but let's take a look at some aspects of what you're doing by posting this.
Manufacturing a test of purity for a conviction you don't identify with
Telling people they fail this test if they don't meet some criteria
Gate keeping some people out of their belief system
Causing distress on those who identify with these beliefs
Making some people feel unwelcome
Adding to the current trend of ideological polarization
Hitting an easy target
Beating a dead horse
Conjuring approval by attacking a generally unpopular group within this context.
I say this because I've done it, and a lot more aggressively than you just did. Used to do it all the time, actually. Still do it once in a while, when frustrated. It amused me. Made me feel like I was fighting a good fight against the people and ideas that weren't helping, but the truth is, at least in my case, I was just being mean and petty to feel control over my frustrating life.
With time and after seeing the consequences of polarization within my own and several other countries, I came to believe that this kind of tribalistic aggression ends in a worse society and world for everyone.
I say let's try to make the lemmyverse fediverse a nicer place that what corporate social media has turned the rest of the internet into. This isn't 4chan, facebook or reddit. We can be humans here.
Even if only to stick it to Christians or whoever you dislike, there is nothing better for yourself, your community and the world than to lead by example. You know. Doing what you want to see in others. I'd really like to see more compassion. I'd like to see more respect and kindness. I don't always accomplish it, but I try to do these things myself... and you know what? After making the effort, it feels good. It actually feels good.
However you feel about my excessively moralizing rant that got out of hand, and believe it or not, I feel for you, man. I know what it's like to feel like there are people who are convinced that bad things are good and feel powerless against them. Feels pretty shitty.
Really genuinely wish you the best, hope people don't get too worked up about this post or my comment and more than anything else, I look forward to trying to make this wonderful community better every day with your help and that of every other kind and well meaning person here.
Thanks for reading and don't let your frustration get the best of you. You're too good for this stuff. <3
This is why I chcukle to myself when people stress the relevance that something is a fact. You can do a whooooole lot of stuff with facts if you know what you're doing.
The sad truth is it doesn't matter how true or fabricated whatever it is people believe, as long as it keeps them coordinated and united as a nation... Or else the other nations that really like your stuff and land might make their people all believe the same thing and they can gain advantage over time.
No one likes hearing this cute little opinion I have but I think the greatest enemy the USA has today is not the right wing nut jobs nor the left wing jobs, it's division itself.
Believe it or not, american citizens today are experimenting two things history is very familiar with:
religious wars
and
slave revolts.
Sorry, sorry, I mean:
fundamentally incompatible world views about what people should aspire to be, what they should aspire to become as a collective identity and how to get there
and
society's most vulnerable people engaging in violence against the armed forces who follow the orders of those who have societal power...
Cause those are totally different.
Either way, when things get this polarized, fights get ugly. Pushing and shoving cannot be unpushed or unshoved... trust and good faith are lost, and they don't fix themselves.
Only thing that can possibly unite the US with the current level of polarization is nothing short of an atrocity within borders.
Sorry if it's insensitive to talk about these kinds of opinions out loud. just sharing my honest perspective.
Yeah, I'm aware. It's like that in most of the americas, possibly excuding uruguay, surinam and canada. Even in countries with great education, 50% will be below average by definition, leaving lots of room for the sneaky people, and we are living in post truth.
Even when what gets reported is verifiable, the tools of manipulation and manufacture of consent that are available nowadays are unprecedented.
With social media we invented the most state of the art, effective brainwashing machines to date and quickly started using them to start wars (of course).
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