The Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 4-4 ruling, said Oklahoma cannot create the nation's first religious charter school funded directly with taxpayer dollars.
Bad People will do Bad Things, but religion gets Good People to do Bad Things. because they believe they are good.
Sincere but incorrect belief can do that without anything we might recognize as religion, tho.
Still I think Optimistic Nihilism CAN replace all the things people think they get from religion. And, it doesn’t require fervent belief in anything without evidence. (Sometimes the optimism feels tenuous, tho.)
Bad People will do Bad Things, but religion gets Good People to do Bad Things. because they believe they are good.
Sincere but incorrect belief can do that without anything we might recognize as religion, tho.
Still I think Optimistic Nihilism CAN replace all the things people think they get from religion. And, it doesn’t require fervent belief in anything without evidence. (Sometimes the optimism feels tenuous, tho.)