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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I am quite against religion because it discourages critical thinking and esteems dogma.
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Me too, in principle. However, I suspect it would be much easier to get most of the public to accept a switch to a new/different dogma, than to get them to exercise critical thinking. I'm not sure if this is pessimism or realism :-)
Actually I owe this idea to some of the climate denialists, who complain that science-based environmentalism is actually a religion. OK, so why shouldn't it be? After all, it does have one great advantage over most existing religions, in that the Earth can be shown to exist, something that is not the case for most deities.
So I invite you all to become the first disciples of Gaia, a religion in which sex in all its forms is OK, and the first deadly sin is screwing up the environment.