re: #80 reine.de.tout

When the clergy promote “peace” at any cost, then people lose sight of the fact that “peace” is all well and good as long as everybody else is peaceful, but reacting in a non-peaceful way may be absolutely required in order to preserve what is right and good.
When “judgementalism” is promoted as a bad thing in all cases, people lose the ability to make appropriate distinctions as to what is good and what is not good.

I knew I was an agnostic if not an atheist for a very long time. Yet.
As I was raised as a Lutheran Protestant I stayed in that church for the sole reason that the role of the church as a do-gooder has the important function as a societal glue.
I live in Germany and I was obliged by the state to pay the church tax, no kidding. Yet I stayed on, for the stated reasons.
But this constant “peace” at any cost, defending other cultures and religions (aka. Islam) by the churches officials and ofttimes open antisemitism in the form of antizionism was the deciding element to drive me away and to cancel the contract.
You have to make a stand sometimes.