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Yeah, I've been against religion most of my life, but softened the stance a bit. There's good and bad. We need a modern social construct that fulfills and repl
by elefanten 5y ago
Yeah, I've been against religion most of my life, but softened the stance a bit. There's good and bad.
We need a modern social construct that fulfills and replaces some of what religion provided. I don't think we've nailed that yet.
- inkblotuniverse 5y agoIt's not that easy to replace something that arose semi-organically across large swaths of space and time. The whale is dead, and we've been living in its carcass for the last 200 years. Can you build a replacement whale whole cloth? Do you understand what all the little fiddly bits do, and why they're there? It sounds hard
- MattPalmer1086 5y agoAlain De Botton makes this argument in Religion for Athiests. https://www.alaindebotton.com/religion/ https://www.alaindebotton.com/religion/