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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"What is the most basic article of faith? This is not all that we are." - for me that doesn't even require the belief in the supernatural (unlike Leoben) but simply that we are not just individuals but exist in a continuum as descendants of the past and ancestors of the future and strive towards some higher purpose.

I believe an idea of a religious utopia, where everyone follows the tenets and then everything works just fabulous is what drives people to religion, not the fear of death. That is why religion evolved alongside humans, for social cohesion. The main problem in this are the simplistic solutions and the slow adoption of "new revelation" through science. And that blind faith trains people to be narrow-minded.

Basically I believe we need a better class of religion if we ever want to get rid of the medieval stuff @[email protected]