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> A well formed religion might be thought of as an effective form of long term data storage. An example might be useful; it seems to me that religions inherent
by denton-scratch 5y ago
> A well formed religion might be thought of as an effective form of long term data storage.
An example might be useful; it seems to me that religions inherently distort the message of their founders. For example, most of Buddhist teaching was developed long after the Buddha died. Christians have had multiple doctrinal conferences to determine what is the "true doctrine". Islam has been divided since shortly after the death of the Prophet.
- tomcam 5y agoJewish scholarship has been refining its view of the Torah for literally thousands of years.
- adolph 5y agoI think a useful example is in the book "How the Irish Saved Civilization." The basic premise is that Christian monasteries isolated from the post-Roman disorder preserved knowledge and knowledge tradition that reemerged later. Stating this is not intended as unqualified praise for the book or to deny the role of Orthodox, Syriac and Islam in knowledge preservation or to say that the deconstruction of the Roman Empire was a bad thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilizati...