That’s not true. You’d have to gauge your eyes out for lusting after a woman. And women? They aren’t allowed to reject their husband’s sexual advances. Which doesn’t sound extreme until it turns out hes got a scat fetish.
The first part of your argument kinda supports mine.
Jesus said if you can’t quit staring at, or keep your fuckin hands off women, cause you’re so pathetic about attractive women, gouge your eyes out and cut off your hands. Cause you’re the problem.
As for the second part was that something Jesus himself preached? Or is that more of that Paul dudes bullshit?
Fair enough. Though it seems to be more of a drag than a progressor of societal changes. Not only that, why have religion at all? Why not have a “lets try to figure out how to work together on a large scale” thing? Make it free from mythos, and more relevant to what’s present.
Why not have a “lets try to figure out how to work together on a large scale” thing?
We are constantly doing that, it’s called culture.
Make it free from mythos
That is one way it’s been approached from time to time. During the age of enlightenment, they scratched out “god” and “man” and came up with all sorts of reasons that their social order was simply the results of nature and it was folly to try to change it.
Turns out humans can’t just step outside of everything that informs their thinking.
That’s not true. You’d have to gauge your eyes out for lusting after a woman. And women? They aren’t allowed to reject their husband’s sexual advances. Which doesn’t sound extreme until it turns out hes got a scat fetish.
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device.
Accept its existence or die.
The first part of your argument kinda supports mine.
Jesus said if you can’t quit staring at, or keep your fuckin hands off women, cause you’re so pathetic about attractive women, gouge your eyes out and cut off your hands. Cause you’re the problem.
As for the second part was that something Jesus himself preached? Or is that more of that Paul dudes bullshit?
I don’t care who wrote that down. None of it was written by jezus anyway.
Religions aren’t a static thing, they evolve with culture and material conditions.
Fair enough. Though it seems to be more of a drag than a progressor of societal changes. Not only that, why have religion at all? Why not have a “lets try to figure out how to work together on a large scale” thing? Make it free from mythos, and more relevant to what’s present.
We are constantly doing that, it’s called culture.
That is one way it’s been approached from time to time. During the age of enlightenment, they scratched out “god” and “man” and came up with all sorts of reasons that their social order was simply the results of nature and it was folly to try to change it.
Turns out humans can’t just step outside of everything that informs their thinking.
Perhaps! Though it sounds like we simply gotta keep trying.