Honestly I have no idea who the majority of those philosophers are, I do not read a lot of philosophy, I think it.
Ideology is not in and of itself a dangerous thing, though I would say it is a limiting thing for it groups a set of ideas and limits you to those ideas. Ideology can spring from anywhere. One could argue that my ideas surrounding the self-identification with an ideology as being potentially bad, is, in and of itself, ideological.
Yes it does tend to cast things in black or white lies, totally ignoring the infinite variation of grey that unites these polarities. Its seductiveness comes through our tendency for tribalism in all things from nationalism to fashion. So few people actually think for themselves and instead rely on the herd mentality. Recently someone actually dared say to me, "I don't understand the science of climate change but I know it is man made." ~ Really? if you do not understand the science of a thing how can you know about that thing? Oh, yes, herd mentality.
I will read your post and comment on it there.
Not all people born to religion stay with the religion. The poorer the people the more children they will have. Highest birth rates are in poorer countries, who also have higher infant mortality rates. Religion is on the decline, churches struggle with maintaining their numbers. It is hard to say whether it will or won't as their are many factors to consider such as climate and the potential shutting down of our techno culture with a x-40 flare. If we survive technologically through this global cooling then I would argue religion will decline as more and more people seek to get away from unjust dogma and antiquated notions of what is righteous. Education and knowledge will assist in reducing religious congregations. If we lose technologically then we will see a rise in the popularity of religion, as well, we will see a rise in immorality as people struggle to survive by whatever means possible.
Who knows you may be right, but as for taming religion, I do not know if it is possible. many have tries to tame religion before and what happens is it tends to go underground.
How would you tame religion?
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