It absolutely astonishes me that it's 2022

Plenty? As a percentage I believe its lower than in the general population. However it does go to show that even intelligent people will forgo their rationalism when it comes to religion.

 

Today my heart goes out to all those suffering due to being unable to enter a large shop, closed in the name of the Christian religion.

And to those too dead to enter a shop in Ukraine that’s been destroyed in the name of the secular religion of fascism.

 

I would have agreed until we got up this morning and found the Easter Bunny has been! Looking forward to troughing my Wispa egg later

 

I’ll try my best but I can’t promise I’m afraid….

 

Surely religion is about belief. Everybody believes in something.

Some worship and believe in a criminal and liar like Johnson. Some worship and believe in a butcher like Putin.

No different. Except Putin and Johnson have been proved to exist.

 

If someone wants to aspire to live a better life by following a book written 2000 years ago with the sole purpose of making people live better lives, then who am I to criticise. Some people may see something in their faith that I do not. It doesn’t mean they’re wrong or mentally unstable as someone on here put.

 

The bit I don’t get is why just big shops, what about all the others, are restaurants, pubs, petrol stations etc not staffed by religious people. Surely it should be all?

 

Religion makes a lot of sense evolutionary speaking - at one time Homo sapiens shared the planet with Neanderthals, wherever they interfaced eventually the humans took over and Neanderthals became extinct. Now one of the big questions is why was that? What advantage did we have? The answer appears to be “speech”. If you can’t speak and communicate complicated ideas then it’s difficult to organise large groups - you are restricted to the people you can know very well individually and that’s around 50-100. The clue can be seen to today with, for example, chimpanzee troop size - they are between 25-80 individuals- because that’s all you can hold together without speech. Once you have the ability to speak, and also write ideas down which can be added to by future generations then evolutionary speaking your onto a winner. With it comes the power of stories and shared cultures which suddenly go beyond the 80 or so people you know intimately to include 100s, 1000s and eventually millions of people. Hence religion has a critical role in the origins of organised societies - the ability to galvanise huge groups under a common cause.
this “idea” that religion causes conflict and somehow we’d live in a brotherhood of man without it is frankly b0ll0x because humans will always find a story to tell themselves about why that group over there need to get gone. Humans kill each other in the name of god, gods, no god, country, pride, greed, revenge. Thus it ever was and ever will be.

 

A slight tangent but my firm moved to flexible Bank Holidays this year. Seemed like a good idea with each individual able to decide whether they took the Bank Holiday off or chose to work and have flexibility around their days off.

This was based around our multi-cultural society and giving everyone flexibility.

 

Ive got a rare sunday off

Thankyou Jesus

 

But would you all be allowed to have Christmas off?

 

The sole purpose of the bible (assuming that's what you were referencing) is not to make lives better.

Impregnated by a man who raped you and refusing to Marry him? Stone her to death.

 

I think it used to be based on the actual size of the shop.

 

It's 2022 and it absolutely astonishes me that people can't keep their traps shut and allow others to believe whatever they want to believe.