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Originally Posted by peter12
Of course it is moderate. Religious people tend to form the most cohesive, stable, and productive communities. Properly structured religion actually helps a free society become more free, civil, engaged, and transparent. I'm not just speaking of Christianity here.
Radically autonomized and liberated individuals actually tend not to form any attachment to society at all.
Look at the incredibly radical liberation movement currently occuring around the subject of sex and gender. It is actually deconstructing quite stable communities in the name of ideology.
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Religion no longer works, it stopped working around eighty years ago, ironically about the same time socialism stopped working for roughly the same reasons, we used to need religion as life was so grim there had to be something to make sense of it and the rules answered the need for a basic set of guidelines for a relatively simple society, life isn't as grim and we now live in complex multicultural societies that are defined by technological wonders that our grandfathers would have viewed as witchcraft.
We know that most conditions that used to viewed as sin are in fact complex genetic and social conditions that we have little control over, as such the concept of sin becomes less and less rational and that, as the basis for all Judeo Christian Faith, undermines the whole concept.
This causes people to either abandon their faith entirely or bury themselves in utterly absurd fundamentalism in an attempt to ignore the obvious contradictions.