(03-30-2019, 10:35 AM)Pandæmonium Wrote:(03-29-2019, 06:06 AM)Minimalist Wrote: Nice speech.... but I think the rabbi has a point here.
I mean really. When you look at the parade of perverts, con artists, bullshit artists, and thieves who comprise the so-called Holy Men of this planet they do not have a lot going for them.
The decline of religion in the west is solely down to its inability to adapt to new discourse and societal norms, thus consigning itself to irrelevance in the eyes of those who live in and drive the growth of those norms. It has nothing to offer those of us who see the enlightenment or scientific advances and philosophical thought outside of the realms of theology. And that’s entirely on them, not those of us who don’t espouse it.
Survival of the fittest and all that.
Humans will come up with something just as stupid to replace it.