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Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] CynAq@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Spirituality is innate" is such a copout for me. In my opinion, it just means people have an imagination and emotions, but I don't want to admit magic isn't real so I'll call it spirituality.

[–] sincle354@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Is it useful to view spirituality as makeshift philosophy and psychotherapy? When I pick out the good parts of religion, I see it's not so different to what a stoic or my therapist might say. You can either pray for or visualize positive outcomes and either way it works to ease the mind. Hell, Nietzsche's work has basically a religious conception (the Eternal Return) without claiming absolute authority of reality.

I ask because my Mom focuses on this aspect of her religion rather than dogma. I hope it gives her what she needs.

[–] sethboy66@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, spirituality is an emergent property with respect to imagination and a lack of omniscience; if something happens that is not explainable by an individual's knowledge they'll find it easy to come up with an imagined explanation.

This is why earlier religions explained things like the seasons, weather, earthquakes, volcanos, stars, etc through imagined gods while those same, evolved, religions don't attempt to do so anymore. We understand them scientifically now.