If religion is not something you can "pay mind to" then we're good, right?
I'm not sure what you mean. I meant that I dislike it when people write about 'religion' as though it were basically a list of commandments that people can obey or ignore. In fact it's a much more complicated and amorphous set of things including relationships, communities, actions as well as words and beliefs.
You can pay mind to what religious books say, what members of your religious communities say, what a particular inner voice of yours which you have labelled 'God' says, but you can't pay mind to what 'religion' says, or to what 'Christianity' or 'Islam' says.
Except you consider everything beyond "do what is right" to be unnecessary because it refers to actions that are not possible?
I really don't understand what you mean by this. Sorry! Can you rephrase it?
... so why not cut out the middleman and go straight to the something else?
What is the 'something else'? I don't think there's anything which is an adequate yardstick of the type you describe.
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I'm not sure what you mean. I meant that I dislike it when people write about 'religion' as though it were basically a list of commandments that people can obey or ignore. In fact it's a much more complicated and amorphous set of things including relationships, communities, actions as well as words and beliefs.
You can pay mind to what religious books say, what members of your religious communities say, what a particular inner voice of yours which you have labelled 'God' says, but you can't pay mind to what 'religion' says, or to what 'Christianity' or 'Islam' says.
Except you consider everything beyond "do what is right" to be unnecessary because it refers to actions that are not possible?
I really don't understand what you mean by this. Sorry! Can you rephrase it?
... so why not cut out the middleman and go straight to the something else?
What is the 'something else'? I don't think there's anything which is an adequate yardstick of the type you describe.