Ideas by Alex Ahn

Most religions can be seen as a social technology that enable cooperation, ultimately enabling a society to be able to better preserve and defend itself. First, we will analyze Christianity as a social technology that enables a more efficient economy. Second, we will make an association between deontological ethics and autonomic systems, and attempt to illustrate consequentialism as an awareness of autonomic functions. Third, we will attempt to create a comprehensive philosophy that contains both the deontological ethics of religious thinking and the consequentialism of scientific thinking, ultimately to present a modern social technology that could be a replacement for both types of thinking. Christianity is pushing forward the image of a new type of person: Jesus Christ. What are the characteristics of Jesus that sets him apart from the old image? It is the belief that the dominant organizing force of a society can be compassion instead of fear (and the ability to instill it). From t...