• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I haven’t had any religious inclinations since I was a small child, but I don’t think we would be humans without narratives written to guide us. If it wasn’t bibles, it would have been other stories and fables people would have used to both guide people’s morality as well as justify every bad thing people are gonna do anyway.

    Nothing is black and white, and I still think faith is worth respecting in others, I sometimes wish my mind was that “clean” that I could get anything from reading mythology.

    • JakJak98@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Of course. Our entire society is built upon generations of knowledge instilled on us by our lineage and what they were exposed to.

      Some stuff is black and white. Like hurting other people or causing pain. Things that make sense to not do because they dont feel good. But many of the other moral sensibilities, absolutely! It comes from people before us.