The level of psychological peace and freedom rewarded through religion is proportionate to the measure of ignorance one is willing to volunteer.
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Like the slogan from the book 1984…“ignorance is strength”?
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I’d argue that religion bestows peace at the expense of freedom. If you’re willing to climb into a claustrophobic intellectual box and just not think forbidden thoughts nor remark on forbidden topics, then it absolves you from wrestling with complex moral questions, from being self-aware or introspective, from being challenged by different ways of thinking and/or being, from being tolerant around people whose values are “too different”, etc. Indeed it produces a learned helplessness around such activities.
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Beautifully put, @mordant.
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