We don’t need a god to give that fear. A functioning society would have a strong enough social contract, and actual punishments for those who go against it.
Instead, we got a smiteful and all powerful god who will tell you to listen to your priests or you’ll burn forever in hell. Well what happens when shitty people Abuse that power? Suddenly priests shift their dogma to revere the very type of person that we should be ostracizing and casting out of society.
I don’t agree: some people need the fear of divine retribution to keep them from gestures broadly to the Epstein files
We don’t need a god to give that fear. A functioning society would have a strong enough social contract, and actual punishments for those who go against it.
Instead, we got a smiteful and all powerful god who will tell you to listen to your priests or you’ll burn forever in hell. Well what happens when shitty people Abuse that power? Suddenly priests shift their dogma to revere the very type of person that we should be ostracizing and casting out of society.
The rest of society not letting shitheads get away with being shitheads is all that’s needed.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that most of those people were at least nominally Christian.
Besides, if you need to be threatened into acting like a good person, you’re NOT a good person.
Others need the earth based divine retribution because gestures broadly to the Epstein files
The divine in that sentence is still assuming a god
Could just be assuming Ru Paul with The Matrix levels of weaponry.
You got my vote.
Yeah, lot of good it did them.
Or we could just legalize chainsawing pedos in half.