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Thread #159973   Message #3792374
Posted By: Donuel
26-May-16 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fall of Religion UK/Christians now a minority
Subject: RE: BS: Fall of Religion UK/Christians now a minority
Human nature evolved along tribal community lines for the last 70,000 years with some success. While this survival technique still exists, societal modernism tends toward smaller groups or a solitary lifestyle.

We are adapted to a tribal life but experience it rarely unless it is related to; church, military squad comradery, sport fans, concert goers and political rallies. The TV is now the tribal story teller and the stories preach primarily fear.

We like the communal or tribal experience. When people like soldiers suddenly lose this experience it is a it like PTS. The high suicide rate is among those who have not even experienced active warfare.

When a well adjusted person serves in a religious setting there is very little to worry about. But when a deeply flawed individual seeks out a religious post or education they often choose the worst instincts of competition, arrogance and power. In a sect that espouses greed or god's warrior status, they can be tipped over the edge of reason fairly easily. Tolerance turns to intolerance and empathy can be twisted to be evil. A made up rumor can cause books at home to be put as far away from the holy books as possible until in the extreme, book burning could become the new normal.

The book ends of human nature are the bad apples and the heroic leaders, in-between are the rest of us.

There are bad sects and good sects, each sought out by like minded people. Freedom of religion is no more important than a freedom from religion, each for the right reasons.

A rating system for the sects that are most humane