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K Sera asks about Religion. Hold on to your hats.

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K Sera’s after thoughts:

- Tell us how you really feel, me.

- Religion has its purpose in offering people comfort and acting as a moral compass to those (arguably terrifying) individuals who need to be told how to “be good” - even though we have secular alternatives that are based in reality… but whatever, different people have different needs.

- Even with the positive aspects, I would still argue religion is not a good thing for humanity. Like any system of governance, it’s designed to control through manipulation and the threat of consequences. In many respects, our current legal and criminal justice systems aren’t much better. In both instances, the institutions have stagnant leadership and substrate. Trying to implement changes are often met with violence and death in devastating numbers. The difference between religion and governance is actually pretty minimal when I think about it. The biggest difference I see is probably the approach of leadership. Who holds power? Why do they hold power, or who gave it to them? God? Santa Clause? Citizens? Money? Electoral votes? … ugh… it’s all stupid lies, isn’t it?

- I don’t know guys. Government looks like a net bad, too.

- Well, I guess I’m going to go listen to Imagine by John Lennon and contemplate the unattainable.

Phil’s after thoughts:

-Are people a net negative as a whole? Government can be just as corrupt as religion, from small tribal leaders to modern day empires. And even if we don't have any organization (maybe the step prior to hunter-gather, when our ancestors were nothing more than vulture-scavengers), serious injustice of "might makes right" would substitute any artificial human law.

-Whenever people exist; problems exist. I feel we blame religion as the scape goat when really the problem is human beings all along (insert meme "AlwaysHasBeen.meme").

-We blame the tool, not the toolmaker