Is a hammer a weapon of a tool?
It depends on the desires of the person wielding it.
A hammer does not teach. Religion does
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Is a hammer a weapon of a tool?
It depends on the desires of the person wielding it.
I don't see why you make an exception for carbon emissions. That's simply an economic choice, and right now, it seems money is more important to a lot of people than a future for our species (including their offspring). As the inevitable progresses, we'll see whether that changes, and if it does, if it will be in time.
Everything teaches, and nothing teaches. That, too, depends on the person learning, or not learning.A hammer does not teach. Religion does
As for ecology, we have the issue of global warming, but the full impact of that will be in the future. I've seen big improvements in air and water quality over my lifetime. Do you consider the current state of the global ecology as destroyed since you reference the destruction we see at hand?
Global warming is one symptom of ecological overshoot. We humans are depleting the planet's resources in unsustainable ways. Two obvious examples are topsoil and freshwater aquifers. Those are both essential, and we've consumed most of both of them.
Everything teaches, and nothing teaches. That, too, depends on the person learning, or not learning.
In fact, it does. Ask someone that has used one regularly for a while.Really? You can learn how to use a hammer, it does not teach you how to use it.
Religions can't teach what they can't know. Stop giving them credit that they don't deserve just so you can turn them into the 'big boogerman'.Religion on the other hand is with with mock laws and instructions that teach followers of that religion.
In fact, it does. Ask someone that has used one regularly for a while.
Religions can't teach what they can't know. Stop giving them credit that they don't deserve just so you can turn them into the 'big boogerman'.
Just looking at the title, Hammer, when was humanity not ruined?Is Religion and Spirituality somehow to blame for the downfall of society?
The ecological and moral destruction that we see at hand?
Is religion and spirituality a symptom? Or is it a cure for human ills?
Speaking of which, I was thinking of different genealogical differences among humans. For instance many people figure when they see a person with certain characteristics they or their close enough forebears originate in a particular place.I don't think so. I think people are guilty for their own actions. And one reason for the downfall is that people have rejected good teachings religions have, like for example don't murder, steal, lie...
I suppose, then, the greatest ecological threat is an ever increasing human population. Might unwillingness to manage and control population growth be a function of Western Judeo/Christian culture, and therefore that culture is responsible for the projected continuation of environmental degradation? Or is it still an economic problem as Western economies are built on a model of continual growth and changing that paradigm will have dramatic economic consequences?
Quran claims to be a reminder and Khidr (a) tells Musa (a) "how can you have patience over what has not come to you it's information?".One learns how to use a hammer, stop giving it intelligence it doesn't possess
Sheesh, ever heard of the Bible, the Qur'an, the Tanakh?
Mentors teach students to use tools like hammers.A hammer does not teach. Religion does
Mentors teach students to use tools like hammers.
Abrahamic monotheism, not all religion, which is antithetical to natural spiritualty, or a sense of belonging and connection to nature which is viewed as a sacred metaphorical mother. Look at what Abrahamic theology does to that. It extracts the sacred from nature and exports it outside of nature to an imagined ghost that has no respect for nature or mankind and which issues commands and threats and intends to destroy the universe. How are you not going to consider nature a trash can given that?Is Religion and Spirituality somehow to blame for the downfall of society? The ecological and moral destruction that we see at hand?
Not good advice.Jesus tells them to “love your enemy.”
Christianity has failed to teach those values to its adherents, who do all of those things as much or more than non-Christians. All of the religions say that they have the answers if only people would listen as if that's the fault of the people and not of the religion.one reason for the downfall is that people have rejected good teachings religions have, like for example don't murder, steal, lie
One learns how to use religion, too. Just like a hammer: through using it. Religions can't teach, they can only propose and admonish. One has to use these to learn what works for them and what doesn't. And that depends on what they want to do with it.One learns how to use a hammer, stop giving it intelligence it doesn't possess
Clearly, you didn’t grow up in a Catholic household.One learns how to use religion, too.
Religions don't "teach people", they enable them. Just like any other set of tools.
One learns how to use religion, too. Just like a hammer: through using it. Religions can't teach, they can only propose and admonish. One has to use these to learn what works for them and what doesn't. And that depends on what they want to do with it.
Religions don't "teach people", they enable them. Just like any other set of tools.
Think of the state of world politics as analogous to weather. There are cycles and disturbances.Is Religion and Spirituality somehow to blame for the downfall of society?
Technology is to blame for ecological destruction. Imagine what would have happened had the ancient Egyptians had access to nylon and kevlar: We'd all be floating in an ocean of each Pharaoh's trash. What if the ancient Chinese emperors had discovered viruses? What if the junglers of S. America had, in 12th century C.E. learned to manipulate DNA? Yet we suppose ourselves responsible enough to handle all of these. What will our own legacy be?The ecological and moral destruction that we see at hand?
Human beings are full of hypocrisy. It is our natural state. You can view religion as a force which arises to try and mitigate the damage but which sometimes co-opts the hypocrisy. We'll always be hypocritical for the foreseeable next century.Is religion and spirituality a symptom? Or is it a cure for human ills?
Just looking at the title, Hammer, when was humanity not ruined?