• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Do you have examples? If that were true, religious taboos would be more rational.

    I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism. Catholicism is famously based on eating the flesh of Christ, and it’s repeated in every Sunday mass. And the Christian Bible also makes several references to incest, like with the story of Lot and his daughters.

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      4 hours ago

      Do you have examples?

      Medicalized secular acceptance/resistance toward vaccination has been picked up by religious organizations and turned into a sectarian belief.

      The NIH even had a study illustrating how outreach to religious leadership heavily impacted how communities adopted vaccination.

      I mean, a lot of religions don’t particularly denounce cannibalism

      Virtually every modern world religion has a stated position on murder generally speaking, human sacrifice specifically, and dietary taboos around cannibalism.

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        3 hours ago

        Vaccines? Has that ever been a taboo? That’s a general and recent attitude.

        Alright, fair with cannibalism being frowned upon. I still can’t think of many more significant examples.

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          32 minutes ago

          Has that ever been a taboo?

          Pretty much since their inception, although it has waxed and waned with public perception.

          I still can’t think of many more significant examples

          Pedophilia is always one that leaps to mind. Faith groups regularly wrestle with the age of consent, and largely shape their views around secular consensus rather than any liturgical instructions.

          The Madonna / Whore Complex has it’s imprint stamped all over modern Christendom, with religious leadership being the textbook cases.