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I think you entirely managed to miss the point there.

People don't tell you they lost their faith. They just stop following their code of ethics that was bound to it.

I trust a faceless corporation over this attitude.

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> People don't tell you they lost their faith. They just stop following their code of ethics that was bound to it.

Not sure if this is true. Most Western values came from Christianity, even though the society today is not as religious as it was in the past.

> Most Western values came from Christianity, even though the society today is not as religious as it was in the past.

I think it's the other way around: Like with many holidays, Christianity usurped previosly existing ethics and claimed them as its own. It's not as if there were no ethics in the years we write "BC[E]" after.

You trust a faceless corporation more than someone who demonstrates the ability to learn, grow and adapt their thinking over time?

You and I see this differently.

The corporation is more likely to be accountable from experience.

It is power which cannot be held accountable, regardless of who holds it. Depending on character means you are depending on self accountability, the most wishful of all forms of accountability. Self accountability is for weight loss.

> Self accountability is for weight loss.

Medication works better.

Corporations and accountable? Those things all too often don't belong into the same sentence in Western societies. Individuals get into prison all the time for transgressions much more minor than what corporations can get away with just by paying often a ridiculous fine. I'd say that individuals are much more beholden to accountability.

Yes orders of magnitude more accountable than the religious contribution to ethics of an individual.

Sounds like a category error to me.

> don't belong into the same sentence in Western societies

don't belong in the same sentence in the United States.

There are other societies in the West.

Sadly I'm not that much of an optimist.

I shouldn't ask, but what happened to drive a negative view of faith?

any system of ethics ultimately must rest on axioms held on faith, there is nothing special about that faith being explicitly religious

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