RELS 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: David Wolpe, Cherry Picking, Well-Order
5 Jan 2019
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The world would be better off without religion: a. Debate: original 13 colonies had official state religions which the amendment protects from the actions of. If you didn"t know that, its because the good that religion does is sort of oft-interred with its bone. But you hear about every depredation, every sin, every bad thing: the difference between religious aid workers and others is they stay, they don"t go when the crisis is over. In the holy book you can find something that will validate just about anything, and afterwards, you don"t have to defend the humanity of your actions or take responsibility. God: when we create a world without religion, we license terrible calamities, religion gives us practical benefits, life after death. In western civilization, there is an embedded religious idea, and that is the idea of the rational cosmos. Rabbi wolpe over there say that the whole process of religion is that you take all these complicated books.
