Comment by card_zero
20 days ago
I too like some philosophers. One or two of them were writing back in the iron age. But I don't worship them.
20 days ago
I too like some philosophers. One or two of them were writing back in the iron age. But I don't worship them.
exactly - the worship part is essential, having obedience to good
Ideas should speak for themselves and compete fairly on their own merits, and there should be no faith.
What I mean is that for some people, the Gospel toggle some previously unknown bits in the brain that activates and transforms them. And, worship just becomes what they do. It's the freedom of it - they become unshackled. I really don't know how to describe it in a way that my previous atheist self would understand.
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