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.
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.