05:52… what do God, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny have in common? They're all supposed to teach children to be good.
That notion that there is a God is now more for people to justify their good will towards other people and in a lot of cases, they need that justification to keep doing nice things, believing that there is something good at the end of our life cycle.
There's that term "believing" again. Accepting something as the truth or accepting the idea that something exists should always get trumped by proof being given.
Having faith in something that hasn't been proven to exist can and should be equated with putting money into a low risk/high reward type of scam.
Religion is supposed to teach goodness and love. That this fantastic supervisor of all things and people will reward you after you die, if you follow these strict batches of rules written at a time when there were no rules. I have written before that I can appreciate the idea of trying to persuade the masses that there is this grand supervisor, because the masses are still rather dumb, but the masses are still the masses. They can, will and don't need to be prodded too greatly to stomp those who disagree with them too loudly.
I understand the idea that everyone has the right to believe in whatever they want. It's supposed to keep all the different religions happy and safe, in theory. Now in the news, there have been a lot of antisemitism incidents in North America. People harming other people, or their property, because they're Jewish. The Jews have had a bad rap for a long time, the Nazis had their issues with them, which caused World War ii.
I'm not sure, I haven't been told or taught what the Nazis or these far-right individuals have against the Jewish people. they do have a certain way about themselves, which can be perceived poorly, but that is far from a good reason to hate.
06:32… well, time to get up!
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