Comment by justinclift
13 days ago
> If everyone thinks their kids shouldn’t do something, enforcing that sounds like exactly what purpose religion is practically useful for.
Alternatively, being raised well by their parents and the Community around them.
Religion is not a needed component of that.
Without an explicit religion, the moral code of the group becomes some fuzzy, lowest common denominator Frankenstein.
Note that I’m not advocating for existing religions, just wondering about the use of religion as a tool (since it is baked into our legal code with an ability to use it for exactly this kind of thing).
> Without an explicit religion, the moral code of the group becomes some fuzzy, lowest common denominator Frankenstein.
Hadn't really thought of it that way, and at least the "lowest common denominator" bit doesn't sound correct to me. What makes you think of it that way?
By that I mean the most common bits between many different individual moral worldviews. I might be using that phrase more literally than it is usually used.