is religion a practical necessity to regulate the apish desires of mankind ?
i mean for example to prevent people from cheating on their partner
Jesus is Lord
>>1204835
I'm Lord
>>1204837
You're satan
Just look at the way things currently are, some countries have barely any religion while others are brimming with it. So you can easily compare them using basic general knowledge, the type you should have if you haven't spent your entire life in a box.
Is this a troll board? should have checked.
>>1204831
>To prevent people from cheating on their partner
You are such a cuck OP
If you can't hold onto your 'partner' with your merits then you either don't deserve their loyalty, or if it makes you feel better they don't deserve yours .
Fuck someone else you cuck.
Its just a spook.
>>1204831
Last I checked religion doesent stop anything.
> You can cheat but it's okay if you believe in Jesus!
Such powerful preventing mechanism here.
>>1205630
True monogamy leaves no chance for seperation between two souls.
Standard monogamy began as a way to curtail jealousy between mating partners.
Why is it that the biggest shit holes in the world today also happen to be the most religious?
Doesn't have to be religion, can also just be a sense of civil service, e.g. Rome.
Without either there is little individual reason to get married beyond happiness and in all fairness, that happiness usually doesn't last.
>>1204831
If humans are "apish" it would follow that anything they do is "apish" there for religion would itself by "apish". They would just wreck their own religion with retarded theology.
>>1205719
>religion would itself by "apish"
Excellent point.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2016/03/could-chimpanzees-have-religion
>>1205482
what the fuck are you talking about ?
my question does not even imply that im agreeing with it
what you are talking about has absolutely nothing to do with being a cuck
why do you obsessivley use every possibility to use your edgy fashionword " cuck " ?
also your romantic view of sexuality is total garbage - cheating is an inherent part of the human mating strategy - that doesnt mean that im personally a cheater which is obviously totally irrelevant to this thread too
your fucking idealism doesnt help anybody
>muh loyalty
accept that humans are fucking bald apes
contribute to the question or shut your useless edgespitting shitmouth
>>1205719
that is just silly wordplay
just because you can ascribe one adjective to humans you cant call anything they create so
>>1204831
Religion does give the believer a set of rules to live by that does help the believer be a better person and help to keep civilised order.
But there are a few problems with Religion. First is that when the a large chunk of tenants were made, they made scenes at the time they were made but don't stand very well today. Also the religious institution in question can be abused by one or more dipshits for their own personal gain.
>>1204831
Depends on the religion and what you consider an apish desire since religion is just as capable of enabling as it is capable of preventing and shaming any particular desire.
Having answered my question with the previous statement though I'd have to say that it's not necessary.
>>1205748
>This projection
Its okay anon, plenty more fish in the sea
And what does the fact we're both hominids have to do with anything.
Of coarse cheating is an inherent part of the human mating strategy. So why would you want to 'prevent people from cheating'... oh, wait you didn't even imply that did you, never-mind writing it in plain view.
Get over your obvious insecurities.
Cuck
>>1204831
But the "apish desires of mankind" are good
>>1206331
Objective good and evil do not exist, Emperor Ming. They too are just apish desires.
>>1204831
It helps a great deal with our anxiety over death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_(psychology)
and helps teach people to not act like violent barbarians, it's not wonderful, but some good comes out of it.
At first it seems a great deterrent for evil. "Thou shall not kill" well awesome, no murder on the face of the earth ever again.
Except mankind found the loophole in killing "in the name of god".
>>1206389
Has it actually accomplished those things though? It seems to have made them worse
>Fear of hell
>Religious warfare
>>1206444
It isn't exactly a loop hole.
>>1206322
of course we have to regulate behaviour even if its an evolutionary adaptation
you yourself said that we have to prevent ourselves from cheating
you proposed sticking to loyality to do it
and my only question was whether thats enough and you stil didnt contribute anything of worth to the topic
you just want to score silly debate points on the internet by attacking your oppenent personally
>>1204831
First you'll have to establish that "religion prevents people from cheating on their partners", and you're not actually specifically referring to "what one interprets as the establishment and the consequences thereof".
>>1208571
Yes that is enough.
