Ehh, I’d argue religion is natural, and it takes a deeper craving for truth and a whole lot of mental work to get fully on board with scientific thought.
Humans love anthropomorphising things, and that goes far beyond thinking baby mammals are cute. It goes clear to anthropomorphizing creation itself. It must have a purpose because it’s complicated, but that’s not strictly true on a grand scale. Self-perpetuation like life does is quite a miracle of its own, and humans LOVE to pretend it’s for special reasons when that’s literally just biology doing the biology thing. Yes, amazing, but mere existence is evidence of little, and people will ascribe everything to mere existence.
Agreed. And in general, finding deeper meaning in things can be great, however organized religion exploits people’s natural tendency towards that in order to gain power and societal control.
Yea. That’s definitely the point where it goes from being an interesting train of deep thought and turns in to something truly bad. No one should be given “preordained” power unless they can already simply will it. If they can, they don’t need sycophants going around doing things for them… yet the sycophants never seem to realize it is their own hands that get dirty.
Title is naturalistic fallacy
Quote is meh in terms of accurately portraying the total historical role of religion, which also includes a lot of positives, and can be roughly equated to “the history of all humanity”
Not the worst quote, but I’m not sure using a holocaust denier as a spokesperson is the best thing to do.
I know people who knew her personally and they didn’t have much nice things to say about her. She definitely was something else and not exactly the best representative.
But hey at least the ACA is still around.
Think of it this way. When I was a little kid, I knew that if I slept facing the wall the monsters couldn’t get me. No one told me this, I created it in my own mind.
People all over the world have stories about gods and angles and demons. There’s never been a civilization that started out saying there was no god.
Faith is natural; it’s the folks who misuse it to control us who need to be controlled.
