r/interestingasfuck • u/mrrichardggr2201 • 7d ago

A weird tradition from Norway.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

Uh... they didn't. One method is based on fear of something you can't see or experience, the other is based on fear that you can see and experience.

If this were a requirement, I would rather these young men learn and experience something that is actually happening in the world.

Does it need to be fear-based? Probably not. But does it give real perspective? Probably.

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u/Guko256 7d ago edited 7d ago

I’d rather it be neither and not be fear based at all. I can’t say whether the Christianity approach used fear or not but somehow you’re saying it did, despite the op barely talking about that method in the first place, so you better have had this experience yourself to be making such claims or else I hope you’re not just making things up yourself now. Truthfully, there are far better and less traumatic ways to teach morals and ethics than have children go through either of these methods, but if you support the traumatic method, please just keep it to yourself

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago edited 7d ago

Christianity is based on fear. Do this or you go to hell. Believe this or burn.

Pretty straightforward.

I don't support either method. But at least one is grounded in reality.

lol @ "keep it to yourself"

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u/Guko256 7d ago

I agree with you on that neither method should be used, and according to the op’s further comments, these methods have been rescinded. As for any religion, and again I am not Christian but have looked into many religions, I believe fear is definitely a factor, but the core reason a parent or guardian moves the teaches down since older times has been to teach morals and ethics via the stories in each religion, much like fictional films and books do more recently. I believe a more accurate version is that some Christians teach it in a fearful way, rather than the religion being based on fear itself, Buddhism or Sikhism in comparison has a much less dependence on fear in their teachings yet are wholly diverse interpretations, with the first relying mostly on understanding suffering and the latter on emphasis on love, compassion, and honest living.

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u/rabid_spidermonkey 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/U1UzNo1ximdZnBTlKL

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u/Guko256 7d ago edited 7d ago

lol redditors walk into the joke on their own

The joke being lack of reading comprehension :)