Jarhyn
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- Natural Philosophy, Game Theoretic Ethicist
Lolno. In fact they use "religion" to weaponize secular ethics AGAINST homophobia and misogyny. Birth control and family planning are within this framework "sacred rites".Are they as homophobic and misogynous as the right wing mainstream? Christianity and Islam?So you know, TST is The Satanic Temple. Their whole goal is to wrap secular ethics in the thinnest sheet of religious flavoring they can, because this is a brick they can walk in the front door with, and toss back out through the window of "religious freedom".Don't you mean uncritical belief?And now you are getting to what is, for me and in my discussion on the topic, the core defining factor of "religion": uncritical doubt.
What is "TST"?The below are the seven tenants of TST, which actually satisfy your rules for a "good religion" but do not satisfy mine insofar as they spray critical doubt back on all of it, so it isn't really under my concept of "religious", and while they ALSO do not show their work very readily, I've already done most of not all that work that they didn't show.
I discovered TST AFTER I spent years posting HERE about the basis for these tenants.
Does that go for children? If a parent decides to have her children vaccinated, can they refuse the shot?One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
I disagree. One person's freedoms end where another person's freedoms begin. Otherwise, none of us would have the freedom to resist what another person wants to freely do to us.The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
There are some things that create conflicts in their ethics, but the most important part, as you corrected me, is the lack of uncritical belief: one of the tenants demands critical application of reason even against the structure of the tenants themselves.
I generally boil it down to "mutually compatible self-actualization is the most powerful basis of strategy for non-specifically goaled closed system game theory", which strips away the conflicts around vaccines nicely.
Regards
DL
They also use it to get cross statues taken down, usually by getting a big old baphomet statue erected. It's one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.