Religion should consist of principles rather than fixed rules to preserve moral responsibility.
Evidence
One could use an apparently paradoxical expression and say: The soul can find faith only by losing it. To preserve the integrity of religious feeling, it must shake off all determined and predetermined religious form. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Institutionalization is necessary but codified orthodoxy is to be resisted.; Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity.; Religion-as-law freezes iniquitous rules into eternally fixed commands. (+2 more)
Related
- Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms (similarity 0.86)
- Religion-as-law freezes iniquitous rules into eternally fixed commands. (similarity 0.82)
- A religion’s failure by demanding standards offers no comfort to its defenders (similarity 0.81)
- Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity. (similarity 0.80)
- A non-religious impulse within religion can destroy its own forms (similarity 0.78)
- Religion based on rules kills the moral responsibility that defines true religion. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity.
#corroborates(0.85) - Preserving religious feeling requires abandoning religious forms
#expands(0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 865 - Religion-as-law freezes iniquitous rules into eternally fixed commands.
#expands(0.70)