Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:59:17 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <0883d053-e8cc-f53b-c637-07c92bee9de4@example.net> References: <5e586091-73c1-76a2-2b08-76b0fe4190a2@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2154181"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62097 On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, Rich wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 09/12/2024 09:33, D wrote: >>> I believe the phenomenon of religion has a common, personal "core", >>> and that after the original inspired founder was gone, the path to >>> using his teachings as a way to power starts. >>> >>> Once it becomes institutionalized, all the deep, meaningful and >>> personal experiences get lost and you just get the ossified, >>> formalized remains left. >> >> Was Moses a person in divine contact with God, or a very smart and >> wise Jew who chipped away on some stone tablets, told the tribes >> 'these are Gods Words' and thereby created a morality that allowed >> laws to be divine rather than man made? > > What better way is there to get the "tribe" to not question the "moral > laws" than to convince them that their God explicitly deemed these so. > Who are you, lowly tribe member, to question the "word of God"..... > > One just have to be successful in the process of selling of the 'laws' > as "divine from God" to the tribe members. > True. And today we do the same thing with climate change, although the laws comes from scientists, who represent "the truth" (TM) and may never be questioned.