Except that relationships and communities don't require religion ...
Of course not, but nor do words or belief. There are religious and non-religious relationships, communities, words and beliefs. It seems really arbitrary to decide that religion = religious words/beliefs but not religious relationships/communities.
Similarly, why do you single religion out as a 'middleman', but not teachers, parents, media, gut instinct etc.? It seems unreasonable to give it a special, lower status.
As for 'our own good sense about what hurts and doesn't hurt people', doesn't that come out of all the intermediary things we've been listing, sometimes including religion?
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Date: 2011-06-30 09:37 pm (UTC)Of course not, but nor do words or belief. There are religious and non-religious relationships, communities, words and beliefs. It seems really arbitrary to decide that religion = religious words/beliefs but not religious relationships/communities.
Similarly, why do you single religion out as a 'middleman', but not teachers, parents, media, gut instinct etc.? It seems unreasonable to give it a special, lower status.
As for 'our own good sense about what hurts and doesn't hurt people', doesn't that come out of all the intermediary things we've been listing, sometimes including religion?