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This may be the best book to read on the topic: Breaking the Spell by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. In short: religion is a meme (that has evolved over cen
by yboris 4y ago
This may be the best book to read on the topic: Breaking the Spell by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. In short: religion is a meme (that has evolved over centuries). Crudely put, one can draw some parallels between religion "infecting" a human and a virus that makes an ant crawl to the top of a blade of grass (as the virus needs a sheep's stomach to reproduce).
https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Phenomenon/dp/0143038338 https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Spell-Religion-Natural-Pheno...
- trasz 4y ago
- olddustytrail 4y agoPresumably by "the west" you mean some parts of the Americas?
- trasz 4y agoNo, I mean all of west. Protection of children from religion is pretty much nonexistent.
- what-imright 4y ago^totally. There really needs to be action on this front. The problem has a massive scale and is more likely IMO to negatively affect a young persons experience than global warming, war, race and the phobias. Trouble is the human mind needs something to cling to. It simply wasn’t meant to challenge the mysteries of existence and the universe, and to accept death. So we fall into the delusion pit.