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MikeH106
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| Ancalagon wrote: | | 1. What in the heck does euthanasia have to do with unattractive people? |
I think I'm going to take a break from this whole thread.
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Zornslemma
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| Awesomelyglorious wrote: | | Basically all of the things you have argued against Christianity in the past, just now in an essay. That being said, I consider it wrong-headed for most of the same reasons I considered those past arguments wrong. |
Religion has a social function: To legitimize the status quo, preserve the social order and ensure the survival of the "culture".
The whole idea is that the societies rules are a reflection of the natural order of things; because most people believe that nature is normative. |
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Awesomelyglorious
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| Zornslemma wrote: |
Religion has a social function: To legitimize the status quo, preserve the social order and ensure the survival of the "culture".
The whole idea is that the societies rules are a reflection of the natural order of things; because most people believe that nature is normative. |
Religion has multiple social functions: to legitimize the status quo and to criticize it. That's because there are two aspects of religion: the priestly function, which you have outlined, and the prophetic function, which judges the current ordering of the world as wrong and seeks to change it. There are other functions, but they are irrelevant for the current issue.
Christianity, as seen within the text, and in the historical context, is born from the prophetic function of religion. As it rejects the current order radically, as seen from all of the criticism of the Pharisees(Jewish priest sect) within the texts, and from the fact that it was a Jewish cult that was persecuted significantly from the beginning and that functions differently than standard Judaism. As such, interpreting the original purposes of Jesus and his followers as prophetic is likely more proper than interpreting them as order-maintaining and status quo preserving as you intend to. Interpreting particular modern groups in Christianity as priestly is likely correct though given that Christianity is now the dominant religious expression. The notions of a priestly and prophetic function though aren't things I invented, in case you question that, but rather they can be found in the 1st edition textbook "Sociology An Introduction" by Ronald W Smith and Frederick W Preston, copyrighted in 1977. (likely others too, but I own that particular textbook on the subject)
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Oh no, Refutation of My Wager 
I can't believe...my eyes...
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