Less obnoxious and maybe a bit more relevant example is the cast system. Most would agree that it's been a part of Indian culture and Hinduism for quite some time. There was a movement of dalits converting to their own type of Buddhism because they considered Hinduism inherently discriminatory towards them.
Because people don't like religion. In the other thread some people were saying that religion is was an integral part of their culture so you can't pass down that culture without religion, which kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I feel like you can participate in religious cultural practices and without actually being religious.
I mean, where is the barrier here? If you're..for example, Orthodox Jewish, those religious events are at the centre of the culture. You can participate with the events without belief, but unless you're telling your children "this is full of shit but we should do it anyway for...uhh...reasons" (which is kind of defeating the point) they're going to pick up the basics of the theology by osmosis.
That's something many secular jews already do, isn't it? They celebrate holidays, eat traditional food, tell the bible stories, but treat them like stories, myths.
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Less obnoxious and maybe a bit more relevant example is the cast system. Most would agree that it's been a part of Indian culture and Hinduism for quite some time. There was a movement of dalits converting to their own type of Buddhism because they considered Hinduism inherently discriminatory towards them.
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Because people don't like religion. In the other thread some people were saying that religion is was an integral part of their culture so you can't pass down that culture without religion, which kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I feel like you can participate in religious cultural practices and without actually being religious.
I mean, where is the barrier here? If you're..for example, Orthodox Jewish, those religious events are at the centre of the culture. You can participate with the events without belief, but unless you're telling your children "this is full of shit but we should do it anyway for...uhh...reasons" (which is kind of defeating the point) they're going to pick up the basics of the theology by osmosis.
That's something many secular jews already do, isn't it? They celebrate holidays, eat traditional food, tell the bible stories, but treat them like stories, myths.
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