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Originally Posted by dead_battery
what would happen if we all agreed on the amazing insights and poetic beauty of your favourite religious texts? fuck all. fine they might be but tools for surviving and understanding the present they are not.
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Considering how much we are threatened by individual greed, avarice, and lack of mutual human empathy in the world, perhaps you are wrong. Perhaps more than ever to survive and understand the post-modern world where our technology has become infinitely dangerous, we need those insights and poetic beauty all the more. After all, lets not pretend the Romans or the Indians were all that savage, they lived what we would recognize as fairly modern lives, so their insights are perfectly apt for those willing to explore them.