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SW-User
All of them, every single one is a tool of social control.
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Be careful you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

SW-User
@GodSpeed63 It's all bathwater, I used a sieve to make sure.
GodSpeed63 · 70-79, M
@SW-User Read James 1:27.

SW-User
@GodSpeed63 No thank you. I stated my opinion, as the OP asked, I'm not here to engage with you.
CopperCicada · M
@GodSpeed63 She's right. It's why I left the church.
Everything is apostasy in somebody'e eye.
And none of it is a legitimate part of any real spiritual discipline.
We start with Deity being beyond all categories and concepts to I'm going to hell because I filled in the wrong oval on a ballot or like eating a woman out. Or listen to heavy metal or meditate. Or refuse to politicize faith or believe the world is flat a 6000 years old.
Everything is apostasy in somebody'e eye.
And none of it is a legitimate part of any real spiritual discipline.
We start with Deity being beyond all categories and concepts to I'm going to hell because I filled in the wrong oval on a ballot or like eating a woman out. Or listen to heavy metal or meditate. Or refuse to politicize faith or believe the world is flat a 6000 years old.

SW-User
@CopperCicada The important thing is that I'm only talking about religion, with its rituals and books and totems and social rules and power structures. I'm not making any comment about the ultimate nature of reality, about which I make no claim of knowledge.