I wouldn’t say “blind”, but yes it’s about acting on ideas that may be wrong. But you do that when you marry someone (does they actually love you? You can’t know), or everytime you trust someone. Life is taking decisions without knowing. It’s the same with the existence of a God: the only purely rational position is agnosticism. But for me, to be agnostic is like refusing to accept the love of someone because they may betray you. It’s a rational decision, it may be enough for you and it’s okay, but for me it’s not enough.
It’s not q question of moderate or fundamentalist. I’m an extremist. An extremist of love, acceptance and solidarity because that’s what I understand when I read the Bible. I fight the fundamentalists, both in the outside and in the inside. And I’m far from alone.
Religion is not based on belief in the untrue. It’s based on belief in the unknowable. Used rightly, religion is on the opposite a way to fight superstition as it helps people thinking rationally on these subjects. I emphasize “used rightly”: of course what you said is true of fundamentalisms.
American evangelicalism is like that, radical Islamism is like that, a few other religious schools are like that. But the common religious form is not specially intolerant, not much than a philosophical school or a political party. Do you want to fight all people who have opinions in the name of tolerance?
Some people are proud of their ignorance, that’s true of some religious people and some non-religious people.
Things you don’t like should be forbidden. Is that how you advocate for a free society?
As a new moderator of !christianity@faithlemmy.online, yes, of course :-)
You obviously have a very vague (and wrong) idea on how theology works.
I follow the Bible, but I’m not a litteralist. You should read things about Christianity before having definitive jugments.
I’m a Christian and believe that abortion should be legal and free and that homosexuality isn’t a sin. My church has similar positions. Why should I ask people to excuse me for things others do?
On lemmy.world, without even talking about the tankie places, a post positive about religion will be downvoted, no matter what the subject or argumentation is. One can be against religion, that’s understandable, but that’s just being aggressive.
But you can’t act only when you know all the parameters, that was the sense of my love metaphor.
Some people are more happy without religion. Some other are more happy with a good religion. I do not live in America, I live in a country where religions, all religions combined, are followed by a minority of the population. So most children has no religious ties and teachings at all. A lot are happy like that, but others suffer without knowing why. Religion should be a freedom.