mygall · 6-Year Club · 2 points ·
The post was about how puritanism changed things, and that's pretty much entirely the product of christians.
No one has ever had cognitive dissonance about the fact that smart people were religious. However, lots of people with short memories forget how deep religion had seeped into the collective mind. If anything, that human knowledge increased exponentially at the same rate as religious devotion going down is proof that one can replace the other with education.
There's no forgetting the impact of christianity, but you and most people who hold that faith greatly misjudge this impact. Because the best thing christianism ever did was to give up its place as a moral compass in favour of humanism. Putting people first, instead of morally decaying traditions that turned outdated folklore into absurd rules. Just because it was there for centuries doesn't mean it was necessary, or that things couldn't have been similar with another common belief, or none at all. Religion is a peace of mind for humans, but the cost in willful ignorance is too great to ignore, and if the last couple century of philosophy has showed anything, it's that everything we hold as a positive output from christianism is achievable without it.
No one has ever had cognitive dissonance about the fact that smart people were religious. However, lots of people with short memories forget how deep religion had seeped into the collective mind. If anything, that human knowledge increased exponentially at the same rate as religious devotion going down is proof that one can replace the other with education.
There's no forgetting the impact of christianity, but you and most people who hold that faith greatly misjudge this impact. Because the best thing christianism ever did was to give up its place as a moral compass in favour of humanism. Putting people first, instead of morally decaying traditions that turned outdated folklore into absurd rules. Just because it was there for centuries doesn't mean it was necessary, or that things couldn't have been similar with another common belief, or none at all. Religion is a peace of mind for humans, but the cost in willful ignorance is too great to ignore, and if the last couple century of philosophy has showed anything, it's that everything we hold as a positive output from christianism is achievable without it.
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