Let me tell you what happened to a classmate of mine when we were in ~ 6th grade at Catholic school……
You can have your 10 when I get my 7
“Isn’t it convenient how my religion is all about how great I am and how rich I should be. I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what Jesus intended. No, wait… I don’t care!!!”
I had an extremely religious teacher in secondary school. He had a habit of threatening other staff, tradesmen, drivers in front of his pupils with “I know taekwando”, then relising what he’d just done and repenting/distracting with “let us pray”. One morning we came into the classroom to find him in a huddle with his union rep. Turned out he’d spent the night in jail after being arrested affray (fighting).
For almost all religious people their faith provides guidance and comfort, but you don’t want to encourage the nuts.
I feel like faith provides a disproportionate of comfort compared to guidance. People take the parts of religion they agree with, and discard the rest. I actually think this is good practice, but it becomes an issue when they use the affirmation of the broader religion to justify their actions.
A moral compass is something you have to find for yourself, and acknowledge that it is not backed up or justified by any other entity than yourself.
For me, I’ve found a good starting point is the TST tenets. Compared to the 10 commandments, they are much more broad. I can use them as a lens to analyze a variety of different situations and organize my thoughts and feelings.
But that doesn’t mean that I use TST to justify my actions, the tenets are my tools of introspection. Heck, the 7th tenet even acknowledges that the tenets are only guiding principles and seems to encourage finding your own morals.
Is the satanic temple something people just know when they see TST? Are their tenets common knowledge?
Maybe I’m living under a rock here, but your comment is hard to decipher without any links or explanation. Yes I found out what you were talking about by googling it, but your comment doesn’t help much if people need to Google it. 9 times out of 10 people just ignore it and move past it.
guidance and comfort
You mean justification.
Maga pastor projecting also his eyes look like his parents shared parents.
Is no pedophilia one of the commandments?
It hasn’t stopped preachers from raping kids even though the ten commandments are in churches.
That hasn’t stopped the Church, GOP, Youth Pastors or Cops.
That sounds very much like projection…
Yeah, that never happens in religious school.
Except with this teacher, the first one in a quick search, and lots and lots of others: https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/fishers-christian-academy-teacher-preliminarily-charged-with-sex-crimes-against-children
I mean a lifetime dedicated to the church and god didn’t stop all those rapist priests, but surely a poster on the wall with 10 rules will…
The ten commandments have done a really good job of keeping tens of thousands of clergy from raping millions of children worldwide over the past centuries. How could this possibly not work?
MAGA pastor = deceiver.
I don’t understand, is this not the onion?
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As someone who grew up in Boston… it didn’t fucking stop the priests.
