alt Hacker NewsReligion = blind loyalty (to those in power of said religion)
It's one of the oldest tools we have to control society. And it gets abused. All. Of. The. Time.
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__s • today at 3:32 AM
better word is dogma
Religion = blind loyalty (to those in power of said religion)
It's one of the oldest tools we have to control society. And it gets abused. All. Of. The. Time.
better word is dogma
That's better, but it's still wrong, because there are plenty of organized belief systems whose leaders don't demand blind loyalty. To say that these don't qualify as religions is absurd.
You could say that one of the elements of religion is having faith in something that is not provable via the scientific method and I'd agree. But then you'd lose generals, managers, politicians, etc... from the list above in which case the comment has lost its meaning.