Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Is there such a thing as too much religion, and if so what would that be?
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Too Much Religion?
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(This thread is going to get real messy real fast.)
It really depends on what one understands by "religion".
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Please don't derail my thread.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Feel free to use your own understanding, as long as you explain any cloudy areas, I am sure it will be fine.
I wasn't meaning to; I was trying to draw a parallel. IMO if there can be too much religion, there can be too much irreligion. I tend to look at things that way.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
No. Religion is a spiritual lifestyle. How do you have too much spirituality?
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
I would say 3 mustard seeds worth is pushing it.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
"if there can be too much religion"
So are you saying you think there can be too much religion?
'If'
HonestJoe
Well-Known Member
Religion is an abstract concept so has no scale to measure it against. You’d have to establish what we’re actually measuring before we even start thinking about whether there is “too much” of it.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
And I am asking you if you think there can be too much religion.
No.
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Feel free to use an abstract scale and give us your best guesstimation.
In practice, no.
Atheism and irreligion are not really very correlated at all. As a matter of fact, it is theism that threatens to take religion out of its rails, and often suceeds at that.
I tend to equate religion with Dharma and to judge some things as Adharmic, therefore the spur-of-the-moment answer would be "no".
But that really needs elaboration. There are so many, often conflicting understandings of what constitues religion that we need to examine what is understood by various people and whether it is possible to have too much of it.
There are so many people who associate the word religion with dogma, submission to a supposedly spiritual authority, or even pride-on-belief that sure, we must acknowledge that those are definitely attitudes that one can easily have too much of. Such is in fact usually the case. Even when those understandings don't get off the rails entirely, they are still wasteful at best.
CogentPhilosopher
Philosophy Student
Rival by your same logic I could say: If there is such thing as too much evil then there must be such thing as too much good.
Indeed. We should be wary of presuming the existence of valid symetries involving concepts that are not all that well defined and understood.
I believe there can be. Too much altruism can lead to weakness and people taking advantage. What I'm merely proposing is moderation.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
instead of doing a good thing unto your neighbor....
you pray for it to happen
not that praying for assistance is a bad thing