08-11-2021, 06:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2021, 07:01 AM by Eric the Green.)
(08-10-2021, 06:16 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(07-11-2021, 10:12 AM)David Horn Wrote:(07-10-2021, 05:19 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(07-10-2021, 07:10 AM)David Horn Wrote:(07-03-2021, 03:59 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote: Society? What society? You can move and have separate communities doing their own thing. If the majority doesn't accept us it's time to be more insular. Only befriend and marry each other.
That model has been tried and typically works poorly over the long haul. Yes, the Amish are able to function outside modernity, and the so did the Shakers -- for a while, at least. Communitees like Amana didn't so much disappear as they slowly rejoined the majoority. So that idea can work -- has worked -- but it's rare.
I mean more not befriending them as much or marrying them. Also separate places to socialize and separate clubs. There won't be any more Christians in my generation if we don't do this.
You already have the perfect gathering place: church. Any place in the public sphere is open to all, and private member-only-"clubs" are more elitist than what you have in mind.
I think if atheists are allowed to be intolerant to religious people and state their non belief in God as a fact, I shouldn't have to be tolerant of the atheists. Also if they are to become the majority of my generation, technically I am a minority and they are the ones oppressing me.
Being in the minority is not to be oppressed, if the rights of minorities are respected.
Note however, that the version of "respecting minority rights" professed by right-wing Christians like Ted Cruz means that if Christians are not allowed to impose their religious views on others, that means that these Christians are "oppressed."
It is the same approach practiced by free-market conservatives (neo-liberals), that says "economic rights" and "economic freedom" means the right of owners and business authorities to do whatever they want regardless if it hurts or oppresses anyone else.
The Christian morality common to all religions says "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It is also basically the same as the Kantian philosophy that says do as you would have all rational people do. That means if you want to be tolerated, then practice tolerance yourself.