I think that religion as a human phenomenon is multi dimensional. It certainly has a role (a major one in some times and places) in determining social structures, but it also has a consistent narrative of belief in supernatural beings, and particularly in the promise of an afterlife.rainbow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:12 pmExactly.camoguard wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:35 pmI watched the Nova episode about the Bible (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/) . In a nutshell, there's no truth to the Bible. What's mindblowing as a southern American is that all that psuedo historical stuff in the old testament like Joshua blowing the horn... you'd imagine that the horn blowing was false but maybe the military conquests happened. Nope. Didn't happen.Svartalf wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:01 amActually, the prevalence of religion everywhere and at all times seems to show that there is something in the human mind that makes us tend to believe in sky daddy tales.Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:44 pmAll labels given by the religious. We are simply the default and they are the exception. I dont have a label.
But it does have a narrative that has gotten me thinking. Religion starts as a bunch of agreed nonsense that is essentially the entry code into your minority club. And then at some point, it's a pyramid scheme where the OGs start saying it's true and using the language of truth as a loyalty test. Further in time, culture is permeated with the fantastic stories and those are accepted blindly by many.
So religion is common because each minority pocket used a fantasy story as an identifier, grew to cult status, and hung around long enough to join the list of nutjob religions.
If you imagine each religion as a solution to the problem of "How do I get a group of people to work together?" The different outcomes make sense in a way where the ends justify many means.
Religion has nothing to do with the existence or not of a God or Gods.
It has a social and political purpose.
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