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Good question, hope you don’t mind me jumping in. For me as a teenager or even younger, reading about various faiths and mythologies, I was thinking about which
by simonh 5y ago
Good question, hope you don’t mind me jumping in. For me as a teenager or even younger, reading about various faiths and mythologies, I was thinking about which faith was the right one. Obviously I could simply choose the one of my parents and the adults around me followed, but I went to a school with Muslims, Hindu and Buddhist children too. Was I really supposed to try and convert them? None of the Christian teachers did.
It all made no sense. Everybody was just doing and saying what their parents told them to, and actually thinking or talking about it and taking it actually seriously just seemed absurd. Nobody was actually following through on what the scriptures said they aught to be doing, if it really was all true, and if they had that would be even worse.
So it wasn’t so much deciding god doesn’t exist, it was that if god does exist, which version is it and how would I know? From there concluding that religion is an entirely artificial social construct was a pretty small step.
Having said that, I also concluded that spirituality is clearly a ubiquitous human experience. Religion seems to be a response to a universal, or near universal impulse that it’s worth taking seriously.
- klipt 5y ago> From there concluding that religion is an entirely artificial social construct was a pretty small step. I'd say religion is more an evolved phenomenon than a constructed one. Religious groups tend to have more children than secular groups, which suggests religion confers an advantage to a group's evolutionary fitness.
- Trex_Egg 5y agoI agree, but there may be a tipping point of equilibrium to that social construct. Cause at the end of the there should be some logic and reasoning has to there to feed the family. At least in this modern day. Due to modern education system and scientific thinking clears out most of the dogma imposed on to people by religion. And I can see the current religion leaders embracing them, as it was their own. And we will see how the religion will evolve or devolve in this modern era of logic and reasoning.
- aristofun 5y agoIronically you can never strictly prove that something doesn't exist. But something's existence in theory can be proven by mere act of finding or defining it.
- Trex_Egg 5y agoSocial construct like money has some good use.