Having faith in something is just crap if that something is untrue. It is just distraction from doing something about the problem, what ever it might be. Fear of death is illogical. It happens to all of us, and is unavoidable. We can and should delay it mostly until it is time to turn and accept it. Death and life cannot exist in us at the same time. So the christian life after depth is just a delusion sold by the churches to control the people. It is just bullshit.
Many of the individual tenants of the church are just opinions that are illogical, like loving your neighbors, today. Both neighbors and love may not have the same meaning that they did in christian formation time. Neighbors live near us, often transient in some areas, and we also may be transient. Circles of care, ethics of care, make more sense.
Love may not be the correct word either. Respect, regard, or the like make be more correct. It the Christian pastoral setting, where the population is sparse and stable, who knows, but today it is crap. There are half a standard deviation out to harm us or our property, another standard deviation of just nasty narcissistic money grubbing bastards, like so many old employers that I know. At the other end we have a standard deviation begging for handouts; some who think that there special species status entitle them to more that the remaining peoples. Yet if we refer to them as specials, we are prejudiced. FYN was an engineering company around here for many years, and everyone was unsure about what the N stood for, but it made for a good story.
As Ann Ryan stated, altruism is not a virtue, for it allows freeloaders to prosper. We do not owe anyone our support, especially at a physical/subsistence level. So each virtue/vice must be selective, individually examined and selected.
It is done.
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