Guess what else based its ideology on man being a depraved being in desperate need of higher control, as he was unable to manage himself.
Yes, the state.
Now tell me how that went.
No, I cannot accept a statement where the religious moral is the correct source, christianity has been going on for 2 f*ing thousand years. Have we reached enlightenment?
How old are the other major religions?
Have they reached enlightenment?
The state is but another religion, with the difference that you don't have benevolent (or vindictive) ghosts floating in the sky watching you, but you have very real policemen with very real guns.
Those revolutionaries you talk about did not really abandon god in favor of reason, they abandoned the traditional religion in favor of the state.
Yes, the state.
Now tell me how that went.
No, I cannot accept a statement where the religious moral is the correct source, christianity has been going on for 2 f*ing thousand years. Have we reached enlightenment?
How old are the other major religions?
Have they reached enlightenment?
The state is but another religion, with the difference that you don't have benevolent (or vindictive) ghosts floating in the sky watching you, but you have very real policemen with very real guns.
Those revolutionaries you talk about did not really abandon god in favor of reason, they abandoned the traditional religion in favor of the state.