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xssve -> RE: Benevolent's Taxonomy of Atheism (3/14/2012 9:47:33 PM)
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But he's enlightened, dammit!
I'm afraid the news will probably be in the police reports, I would suggest professional help before you do something really dumb BM, I ain't jokin'.
Anyway, another common religious misconception is the notion that secular and atheist are the same thing, they're not, but getting past that point with "chosen ones" is next to impossible.
The major differences in terms of religion is deism vs. theism, integrational duality vs. oppositional duality, it's a heavy split.
In Christianity, Traducianism means you inherit your soul from your parents, the same way you do your body - this is in line with standard Christian idea of original sin: perfection, like BM is talking about here, is impossible, sin is inescapable, and although the idea is abused, it's essentially in line with with the gnostic conception of the world, and everything in it, as imperfect and inherently prone to corruption, we just do the best we can, so in a lot of ways, it's a relatively realistic paradigm.
Creationism, in this context, means that god creates your soul for you, it distances you from the rest of humanity, makes you special, exceptionalism, deludes you into thinking you can attain perfection. It tends to manifest as oppositional dualism often results in violent attempts to squelch alternative viewpoints, it's typically a very militant type of belief system.
You can't be wrong if there's nobody there to tell you so, and it seems to correlate with a whole range of ASPD's. Authoritarian and despotic, it seems most common in monotheistic religions. I'm not sure, but it's possible that because monotheism involves the denial of one parent, usually the mother, it generates a neurotic sort of cognitive dissonance that makes people crazy. Or they're already crazy so it makes sense to them, take your pick.
BM is leaning pretty heavily towards creationism here.
Hinduism, which is based in integrational duality, and Traducianist, does allow the attainment of perfection, but this is generally thought to take a few tries, via reincarnation, and generally speaking, it eschews violence as means of attaining it.
Nor, I believe, can you attain actual perfection while you remain in this world, you just don't have to keep being reborn.
Interestingly, the gospels are a reincarnation myth, although they call it resurrection, and it differs from integrational dualism in that the oppositional conflict is not cyclical, but terminal.
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