Penn Jillette on religion - eviltoast
  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    People would still think about their relationship with the universe.

    This is only really an argument against taking religious texts literally which most people don’t actually do.

    • Mak'@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      This is only really an argument against taking religious texts literally which most people don’t actually do.

      Tell that to the people who think I should be killed (or, at best, jailed and/or sent through re-education) for being a man lying with a man… because they definitely take that part literally (whilst otherwise getting tattoos, eating shrimp cocktail, and sacrificing their children to Molech).

      I’m cool with people having a relationship with the universe. Call it “God” if you must. But, that relationship is definitely personal.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        Thats why i make a distinction between religious person and spiritual person.

        Religion can be spiritual and definitely started as such but there is nothing spiritual left in a modern nat-C