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>That's an awfully final statement to make about a matter so speculative.
Ok, that's just an offtopic prediction. You are free to prove me otherwise.
>The same can be said of tarot cards and fortune cookies, the same is widely known of these things, and people follow them anyways.
I actually don't mind neither that not your religious views, even if i'm being a bit too harsh on them. It's just that you don't build a highly functioning society on fortune cookies even though if Keynsians tried to.
>surround themselves in the trappings of it
Also true, though in that case i'd still welcome more direct aceptance of the worldview, more like "i enjoy organizing with people, doing rituals collectively, etc" instead of bible thumping and being an arrogant moralfag. Nihilists also have an issue of choosing what to enjoy and pursue, and they also choose these things, just not on the different basises, like past experiences or random numbers. I personally would choose many things, empathy included, if i had means to rebuild myself the way i want to, but i don't so i'll have to go with what i have for now with slight alterations i'm capable of. For me, religion only limits the spectre of things to choose from, even if the final result may be basically the same set of preferences and tastes.
>most nu-atheists are religious to a T, but they've adopted all of the "bad" parts–blind worship and ritualism
Well, that's the nature of a normalfag, i suppose, no matter which ideal they are pointed at.
>they do become aimless pleasure-seekers and more prone to degeneracy
I consider self-righteousness a worse trait than hedonism, and blind xenophobila and narrow mindness are pretty degenerate to me.
>Or is it pure coincidence that there's so much overlap between atheists and the polyamorous genderqueer dogfuckers?
Overlap or the inclusion? Because there's a whole lot more atheists that do not participate in these activities, while the actual overlap is between these fags and modern leftists. Besides, christian folk does have a history of having scumbags, maniacs, rapists and mass murderers as well.
>I don't even believe in a god myself, I've just learned to recognize the role religion plays in a society and the positive effects it has
Well, i think that education and philosophical discourse that lead to improvement of culture instead of blind obedience would work better but you have a point, i guess.
>I just made some purely normative statements about religion
You've assigned pretty important and big roles in the society to it, which i doubt would be the case, at least in the view of society at large and not a single close-knit community.
>I thought I made it clear that these would be adopted by existing communities
Ok, then we're fine. It's still not very convenient to interact with such a unified community without belonging to them as could be the case with some medium sized village, but that's not a big issue. You could easily come up with additional alterations in NAP that'd apply to everyone in your area and people would have to agree with. i'd still prefer situation to be resolved without such things like public property or unions, for obvious reasons but that's just me and you're free to because it's voluntarily.
>There's no need to "create" a christian village or community of christians.
I just meant that they'd still interact with outsiders, be it traders, service providers or just bystanders, and their interactions are resolved by the rules of outside world, not yours. For example, you need to repair a house in your village but somehow don't have a person that can do it via community, so you go and hire some 3rd party to do it and you'll have to pay first if the contract says so even if in your community it's all decided differently.
>Why exactly is "scalability" pertinent or even desirable for a close-knit group of people?
For them - maybe not. For others or even some of them - it is, if only because of economic reasons like economy of scale.
>This just a group of people that live together, not an autarkic, fully enclosed micro-society.
Ok then, i got you wrong. In this case the inconveniences of those rules might do little harm and not even affect the participants.
I kinda started this misunderstanding myself by describing the most basic set of rules with a small addition in a way that might be interpreted as if it's the only way to do it when i only described the most convenient and least restrictive one as the one to be most likely to be most commonly accepted.