I walk by sighted knowledge instead of blind faith

"What is Dogma?

“Dogma” is defined as “a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.” Dogma is very useful if you’re a person in power, because it gives you the power to make demands that must be obeyed, because dogma can never be questioned. However, since dogma has its basis in the need for power, not in the realities of today, it becomes less useful, and less true, as society changes. Dogma’s ability to help people judge right from wrong begins at “poor” (because that's never its real intent) and gets worse from there as reality evolves and dogma lays stagnant. There is no mechanism for judgement in Dogma, only blind obedience to what is accepted to be perfect, objective truth, which is why we see sects of religions eschewing progress in favour of misogyny, Xenophobia, LGBT hatred, and other thinking that we, in the rest of society, consider “backwards.”

"Humanism teaches us to “Humanize” each other. Humans are social animals, like chimps, dolphins, whales, and other higher forms of life. As such, we have evolved the need to feel empathy, concern, and compassion for our fellow human because we, as a group, survive longer when we care about each other and gather resources as a group." Humanization is the antidote to hate because it inoculates against prejudice and hostile out grouping including bullying, sexism, racism, misogyny, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and xenophobia." "What is Humanism? Humanism is the basis for morality and the antidote to hate. It is the philosophy that we as humans can create and live by a shared morality based on the goal of decreasing suffering and improving people’s lives via improving society and each other. It’s all the stuff we all already agree is good." 

"However, the same evolutionary forces that gave us empathy and sympathy for each other also gave us “out grouping” - that is, tribalism. When a tribe competes for resources as a tribe, everyone in the tribe benefits, but they benefit more if they don’t care about taking resources from competing tribes, even if those competing tribes suffer and die as a result. In other words, it’s easier to live when a tribe has cohesiveness in and internal compassion, but sees the other tribes as less than human and does not regard them with the same care."

This link best explains my religious views: https://agnostic.com/humanism/intro

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