Quite right Lz. Religion and patriotism are great cover for some of the worst reprobates. When they also start jamming it down my throat, or cutting it [the throat, not the religion], then their real motivations become clear.
I'd back my theological philosophical foundations more than their's. Mine are self-determined over decades of thought and learning about what's objective reality, their's are copy/paste philosophies handed down from on high. Bearing in mind that "objective" reality is not particularly objective, but is more like group-think, I'm aware that's what "objective" is really just other people thinking they observe the same things [assuming "other people" is not just a figment of my imagination, which I have conjured out of the aether, as I am capable of doing when dreaming, when there is nobody but me there, though at the time there seems to be.
Trying to pin down "objective" even further, how come, when asleep, and there's nobody around except me, the dreams are a separate reality which I'm unaware of in the sense that I have no idea where the dream is going and can be surprised by something that happens,
I can be so surprised by something that happens that I wake with a shock of fright, then can reassure myelf that it was only a dream. A few years ago, that sense of objective reality when waking got a bonus surprise. I was dreaming about something and got a nasty surprise, which woke me. Relieved, as usual, to be awake, saying to myself "Phew it was only a dream. Lucky escape." I was then shocked and got a serious fright because the same thing happened again and it was a very large fright because this time I was awake so I knew it was real. The fright from that realization was so great that I really DID then wake up from the second component of the dream. Double phew~!! But the whole time, there was really nobody there except me. Nevertheless, all that had been was going on only in my head, yet it seemed so real, and strangely, the "me" in the dream had no idea what was going on or going to happen, until in review, I could see what my mind had been doing, against my will; if I was actually in charge, the dream would have involved something a lot more alluring and less terrifying.
The fact that other people also have brains likely to be as mushy and wayward as that, is not a great confidence builder in one's sense of objective reality. Many of them seem to be as detached from reality even on a normal good day, when they are apparently wide awake. Then they want me to adopt their religion based on some long-dead person's "Dinkum word from on-high" ideas of objective reality. They are so sure they are right that they'll conduct heresy trials and burn me at the stake for non-compliance.
Happy Easter! And look what they do to you if you are non-compliant. Nailed to the cross, burned at the stake, taxed to death, imprisoned and otherwise forced to submit to their MADness. The whole point of nailing Jesus to a cross was a warning to others about what those in power will do to you.
My theological teleological precepts fit reality a lot better than do their's.
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