Literary-critical skepticism about scripture prevents mass murder

Evidence

Perhaps, similarly, there is also some element in religion which is not religious; when this element comes to the surface, all concretized religious forms, in which there is true religion, may be destroyed. This is the inner dynamic of heresy and apostasy. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852 (#expands, via linked claim)

In every tradition, regardless of doctrinal position, the operational practice of corporal correction exceeds what the doctrinal texts prescribe. … The gap is universal. The gap suggests that the cause of corporal correction is not the doctrinal text. The text is the post-hoc justification. The cause is structural — poverty, stress, intergenerational transmission, institutional weakness, the absence of alternative disciplinary methods, the normalization of the practice across the community. The text provides cover. The structure provides the cause. — , The Rod and the Child, 4203 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Interpretive tradition weakened the Gospels’ practical constraint on harming children for fifteen centuries — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2042; Scientific rationalism shades into the very faith it claims to dismiss; Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4203 (+2 more)

Related

• Interpretive tradition weakened the Gospels’ practical constraint on harming children for fifteen centuries (similarity 0.81)
• Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 852
• Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves #corroborates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 4203