from the philosophy site:
Re-constructing Strategy
Your religious views are problematic
if you …
* _October 27, 2013_
(http://saqib.co/2013/10/27/your-religious-views-are-problematic-if-you/)
1) … pretty much believe what you believed twenty years ago. If in
that period, you were unable to intellectually grow and reject some of what
you thought you knew, it’s time to put the lights on and stop the rote
learning.
2) … think that your religion has a monopoly on the truth, and by
implication that you know the truth. We still don’t have a clean epistemology,
one which is free of cultural, linguistic and other human debris. We
simply don’t have a pure mechanism to access the truth.
3) … are comfortable in referring to other members of your religious
community as good religious practitioners (in contrast to non-practicing).
None of us is in any position to evaluate the religious integrity or piety
of other people given so much of religion is within us and not our sleeves.
4) … think that not believing in your own religion or walking away
from it deserves execution and/or will result in eternal damnation. There are
plenty of good people on the planet and nobody gave you the definitive
criteria for who lives or who goes to heaven.
5) … can’t recognise that you are first a human being before you are
a member of a religious group. _In-group bias_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism) (including but not
exclusive to religion) is really
powerful and leads to extensive discrimination, injustice and unfairness.
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