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  • Has that ever been a taboo?

    Pretty much since their inception, although it has waxed and waned with public perception.

    I still can’t think of many more significant examples

    Pedophilia is always one that leaps to mind. Faith groups regularly wrestle with the age of consent, and largely shape their views around secular consensus rather than any liturgical instructions.

    The Madonna / Whore Complex has it’s imprint stamped all over modern Christendom, with religious leadership being the textbook cases.


  • Do you have examples?

    Medicalized secular acceptance/resistance toward vaccination has been picked up by religious organizations and turned into a sectarian belief.

    The NIH even had a study illustrating how outreach to religious leadership heavily impacted how communities adopted vaccination.

    I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism

    Virtually every modern world religion has a stated position on murder generally speaking, human sacrifice specifically, and dietary taboos around cannibalism.







  • stupid people vote Republican

    That’s not true, though. Partisanship is far more tied up with local industry than individual intelligence or educational attainment.

    People who earn money in Republican friendly industries vote Republican. What the GOP has done to capture the nation is to seed big swing states with a petrochemical industry and tell people “if you vote Democrat, they’re going to Green the economy and you’ll lose your cushy jobs”


  • I’ve heard this argument before. It seems to neglect how much modern libertarian ideology is packed into the modern school curriculum.

    Conservatives scream about education being Marxist and Woke. Thousands of teachers are purged. Curriculum gets ratcheted further to the right. And by the time your own kids are going to school, they’re asking why history textbooks are venerating Newt Gingrich, bio textbooks include disclaimers decrying evolution and germ theory, and math class is just 8 hours a week of long division exercises the whole semester.

    But you can’t just pretend we’re living in a Shepard Tone of a society, because we’re here now in spite of “superior” education we received a generation or two ago.

    We can’t just blame this on “schools make you smart/dumb” because so much of your modem understanding of the world is formed after you’ve graduated.