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Interesting. I very much want to know. A truck drifts into my lane to give the parked car more distance. Any driver doing anything unexpected when I’m on a motorcycle, extra vulnerable to everything.
The parked car itself isn’t a safety issue, what happens because of it might be. Waze gives me an increased edge against other drivers’ unpredictable reactions to the parked car.
Raised Catholic, and I definitely see organized religion through that lens. I see charismatic leaders manipulating followers. I see systems to keep people, especially women and children, subservient. I see followers giving up responsibility for their own actions and beliefs. Even if a religion doesn’t start out that way, the way they organize makes them susceptible to the power-hungry who will corrupt it.
Am I extremely sceptical of organized religion? Yes, doubly so of people who seek positions of authority within organized religion.
Do I recognize some people who follow an organized religion are good and well-intentioned? Yes.
Do I call bullshit on the people who think the only way to be a good person is by following an organized religion? Heck, yes.