alt Hacker NewsThe modern west is still very religious, they just switched to a new religion without a mascot.
If you don’t believe me, explain to me how human rights, universal equality, democracy etc are based in science. You can’t, because they aren’t. Sorry for blaspheming. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do them, by the way, it just means that it’s our religion to do them.
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> it just means that it’s our religion to do them.
No, "religion" is the wrong word for that. "Ideology" might be more what you are referring to, something like "societal philosophical principles".
It's a strange christian sect that is generally atheistic but borrows values from the western tradition.
That's nothing to do with religion. It's just having values. You can have values without religion.
This is a strange definition of religion, to basically mean anything that isn't science. Are all aesthetics and ethics a matter of religion?
> If you don’t believe me, explain to me how human rights, universal equality, democracy etc are based in science.
I'm always blown away by people who need religion to tell right from wrong.