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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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If you need moral discernment to figure out which parts of your religion's holy book are useful and which should be ignored, then the holy book isn't working as advertised.
I mean all the holy books are in Actually Existing Churches a tool to control the worshippers, so when the worshippers don't have the moral discernment outside of what the book (and better yet, priests) says, then it's working as intended.
That's why liberation theology seems self-defeating to me. Cherry-picking out the parts where he says to sell all your stuff and give the proceeds to the poor is all well and good so long as no one follows it up with all the other passages that undermine or contradict those passages. Either the Bible is true and accurate (in which case the balance of history is decidedly not on the side of socialism) or it's inaccurate and you have to use some sort of moral reasoning external to the book, which throws into question the whole idea of submitting to an unreachable, uncommunicative, and unquestionable supernatural moral authority in the first place.
It seems more intellectually honest to just start from the position of atheism.