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The Religious Right in the United States (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If only certain things matter, then nothing matters. I prefer a God who lets us be free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Does your preference matter?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many religions start out promoting freedom, and evolve to forbidding things and actions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's normal: a free society has laws, even anarchism has rules. Freedom is not anomie.

The problem is that many religions, instead of proposing rules in order to better one's spiritual life, or instead of thinking of then as a means to an end, make rules an end in themselves. Rules can be freeing, but if they're their own end, they become confining.