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I feel like the whole concept of souls is just racism. Because for souls to have a concept of existence and value, some sort of identity between life and death must be, implying, basically, eugenics.
"This soul is better than this other soul" etc. An inherent superiority and inferiority, separate from our minds, insulated, even from logic.
Your idea about the concept of souls being rooted in racism is interesting. Although you lost me when you jumped from life and death as an identity to eugenics.
Eugenics is the final boss of racism. It all leads to that, every time.
All monotheistic religions are in a logic of us vs them.
You say monotheistic and it has me think. Ill never be religious.. well, until we respect earth and its science, but uh, Im in favor of bringing back the old gods. Polytheistic is it?
Shower thought earlier: Humanity truly feels lost.
I'm not religious myself neither, but I could have a thing for animism maybe.
All religion is just an assumed abstraction and proxy of authority of idea.
"There's a god that says if you defy me, you'll piss them off and they're a god and you don't want that"
Or
"The god of rivers says always pray to the god of rivers because it brings you good luck" <-- be hopeful and respectful of the dangers of rivers. You might as well please the god of seatbelts or the god of taking life or the god of death.
It's not always control or malice, but it's always an idea behind it. The problem is when these traditions use fear and tribalism and groupthink to affect bias and prevent change. And then the problem is relying on these mechanisms evolves into dependence.
Also all organized religions are cults. All of them. Every single one. I don't hate everything about all of them, but organized religion is - undeniably - definitively - objectively - ALL - cults.
Not all power is evil. All religion is power.
Example: Telling children to brush their teeth is power.
I'm so tired.
It's not inherently us vs them, but it effectively becomes that way because religion is heiarchial and all about authority and taboo and shit. But even that isn't totally inherently bad: yes, not letting new ideas and variety flourish is bad - but the real issue imo is that the "us" part in the us-vs-them is because it asserts final truth in an existence that requires change AND because it answers questions that need to be actually asked and answered with real truth. Basically, it's full of lies and deep, foundational reliance on tradition and a fetishistic own fart sniffing bullshit that asserts itself like a self centered molester. It's time to reinvent the goddamn wheel and ask questions and really think about all of the assumptions we, you, they, and everybody makes. Make the jump and stop inserting your sky daddy everywhere when you're out of knowledge. Fuck.
/Rant