I had an extremely religious teacher in secondary school. He had a habit of threatening other staff, tradesmen, drivers in front of his pupils with “I know taekwando”, then relising what he’d just done and repenting/distracting with “let us pray”. One morning we came into the classroom to find him in a huddle with his union rep. Turned out he’d spent the night in jail after being arrested affray (fighting).
For almost all religious people their faith provides guidance and comfort, but you don’t want to encourage the nuts.
guidance and comfort
You mean justification.
I feel like faith provides a disproportionate of comfort compared to guidance. People take the parts of religion they agree with, and discard the rest. I actually think this is good practice, but it becomes an issue when they use the affirmation of the broader religion to justify their actions.
A moral compass is something you have to find for yourself, and acknowledge that it is not backed up or justified by any other entity than yourself.
For me, I’ve found a good starting point is the TST tenets. Compared to the 10 commandments, they are much more broad. I can use them as a lens to analyze a variety of different situations and organize my thoughts and feelings.
But that doesn’t mean that I use TST to justify my actions, the tenets are my tools of introspection. Heck, the 7th tenet even acknowledges that the tenets are only guiding principles and seems to encourage finding your own morals.
Is the satanic temple something people just know when they see TST? Are their tenets common knowledge?
Maybe I’m living under a rock here, but your comment is hard to decipher without any links or explanation. Yes I found out what you were talking about by googling it, but your comment doesn’t help much if people need to Google it. 9 times out of 10 people just ignore it and move past it.
Yeah sure because rapists are people who take religion so seriously.
When they do they’re called priests.
Somebody should probably investigate this guy for raping kids.
Just saying,
“I know if I carry around my pocket ten commandments at all times, it stops me from sticking my old sweaty semi-hard cock into every sweet virgin 10 year old butthole I can get my hands on. So you should display them everywhere I may be in contact with kids, just in case I misplace my wallet.” - This Guy, Probably
Such a fucking vile thing to read while starting my morning
Sorry about that. It was vile to write, too. But it illustrates how vile someone has to be to think that the only thing stopping child rape is reminding them that “it’s against the rules”, which… it’s also not against their rules, either. No commandment says anything at all about rape or pedophilia, which is just wild. But don’t worry, they got the one about not making any idols/“graven images”, so… the day is saved. In fact, both rape and pedophilia are often completely condoned in the Bible, at least under certain circumstances. So, yeah, I don’t get this guys logic even a little.
i bet he has very specific types of media on his drives.
I feel sorry for the intern that has to document that.
That sounds very much like projection…
Let me tell you what happened to a classmate of mine when we were in ~ 6th grade at Catholic school……
As someone who grew up in Boston… it didn’t fucking stop the priests.
Because that works so well in Churches? 🤔
I don’t understand, is this not the onion?
He wrote “teachers” but he meant “preachers”.
He’s wrong either way.
It’s so easy to get those two mixed up.
Which number commandment prohibits rape, and which prohibits child abuse?
Weird how they could fit at least three “suck up to god” commandments (depending which sect is counting), and neither of those two, or “thou shalt not treat humans as property”.
While not the commandments of course, the bible does state that a man who lays with a boy, the way he lays with a woman, should be killed. Of course again, the church perverted this meaning to make out that being gay was outlawed by the Bible, specifically at the expense of not being allowed to rape little boys…
Also school shootings ? Or is that for a diff pastor to say ?
Yeah, that never happens in religious school.
Except with this teacher, the first one in a quick search, and lots and lots of others: https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/fishers-christian-academy-teacher-preliminarily-charged-with-sex-crimes-against-children
I mean a lifetime dedicated to the church and god didn’t stop all those rapist priests, but surely a poster on the wall with 10 rules will…
The ten commandments has long been known to stop people from abusing kids.
The Ten Commandments don’t even stop priests from raping children.
There’s nothing in the Ten Commandments about not raping people period.
You could argue “adultery” in a more general sense (or maybe in the original context outside of English, I’m not sure) could contain the modern definition as well as the general idea of “being with someone who is not your spouse”.
The ten commandments have done a really good job of keeping tens of thousands of clergy from raping millions of children worldwide over the past centuries. How could this possibly not work?
