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Originally Posted by Gustoo
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Laws and systems do not dictate values. The values themselves need to be actually held and held truly for the individuals claiming to have them to not torture the shit out of eachother and leave eachother for dead.
When you're a walking husk of a gutted soulless legalist embarrassment of a religion that makes God look like trash you can expert bad times.
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The problem with this take is that it overlooks the good works wrought in many places by the faithful of any particular religion. Christianity in general might be the most glaring example of a corrupted faith system, but that is partly because it was used to enable some of history's bloodiest monsters via European and American colonialism and development.
There are plenty of exceptions, though, at least in individual levels
I've said this before but I'd be fine with the type of capitalism Adam Smith laid out, but that isn't what we have now