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Jordan and Israel need to act to end Jew-hatred in Jerusalem : Comments
By David Singer, published 21/4/2022Jordan's failure to promote interfaith relations between Muslims and Jews has once again witnessed rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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Posted by Yuyutsu, Sunday, 24 April 2022 4:58:08 AM
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«Your limited definition of religion does not include non-theistic and polytheistic religions.»
Why not? Religion isn't about what one believes in, it's about how one lives, about whether their mode of life brings them closer to God, or heaven forbid, away from God.
Yes, certain beliefs may be conducive for coming closer to God, then taking them onboard CAN be used correctly as a religious technique for purifying one's heart and mind, but others might adopt these same beliefs for different ends and for them, these same beliefs might be counter-religious.
«I understand what religion is. It is a device that humans with pre-scientific minds use to explain the universe.»
Religious people in general have no care how the universe works because they are just too busy serving and following God, with little time left to theorize about the universe. There are however, as mentioned above, believers in God that aren't religious, who may only be infatuated with some theory of God but do not practice what they believe in.
Nowadays we also have more non-believers who are very curious about the workings of the universe. Because it occupies their minds that much, some of them tend to project their own minds on the religious mind, falsely assuming that the religious are as interested as them in the workings of the universe, only that they (the religious) supposedly use theories of God as their "solution", solution for their own curiosity.
«I don't know of anything that will make humanity virtuous and kind.»
That is almost equivalent to the thought that religion does not exist.
«I do know that getting rid of religion will eliminate one justification for humans not being virtuous and kind.»
What a perfect example of throwing the baby with the bath-water.
Yes, one justification could be gone out the window. Surely people who look for justifications could find others.
But if getting rid of religion was indeed possible, then all virtues and kindness would also fall by the wayside, then the best justification for dropping virtue and kindness would become "what for?!"