• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It wouldn’t be difficult at all. In fact it would be a true utopia.

    Problem is gods aren’t real and human instincts prefer selfishness and tribalism over “socialist” ideas.

    Humans love the idea of socialism until it comes down to “us vs them” then socialism is the greatest threat there is.

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      6 months ago

      That’s not true. You’d have to gauge your eyes out for lusting after a woman. And women? They aren’t allowed to reject their husband’s sexual advances. Which doesn’t sound extreme until it turns out hes got a scat fetish.

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        6 months ago

        Hyperbole is a rhetorical device.

        Accept its existence or die.

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        6 months ago

        The first part of your argument kinda supports mine.

        Jesus said if you can’t quit staring at, or keep your fuckin hands off women, cause you’re so pathetic about attractive women, gouge your eyes out and cut off your hands. Cause you’re the problem.

        As for the second part was that something Jesus himself preached? Or is that more of that Paul dudes bullshit?

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          6 months ago

          I don’t care who wrote that down. None of it was written by jezus anyway.

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        6 months ago

        Religions aren’t a static thing, they evolve with culture and material conditions.

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          6 months ago

          Fair enough. Though it seems to be more of a drag than a progressor of societal changes. Not only that, why have religion at all? Why not have a “lets try to figure out how to work together on a large scale” thing? Make it free from mythos, and more relevant to what’s present.

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            Why not have a “lets try to figure out how to work together on a large scale” thing?

            We are constantly doing that, it’s called culture.

            Make it free from mythos

            That is one way it’s been approached from time to time. During the age of enlightenment, they scratched out “god” and “man” and came up with all sorts of reasons that their social order was simply the results of nature and it was folly to try to change it.

            Turns out humans can’t just step outside of everything that informs their thinking.