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It's simply a matter of education, access to knowledge. It's a slow process. Organised religion fizzled away when faced with widespread access to the facts (th
by geden 15y ago
It's simply a matter of education, access to knowledge. It's a slow process.
Organised religion fizzled away when faced with widespread access to the facts (though two world wars surely helped).
- swombat 15y agoPortugal is hardly the beacon of education and knowledge of the world, and yet they managed it. This is not a solution, it's giving up and saying "let's wait for it to happen by itself".
- geden 15y agoExactly how is educating people and giving them facts "giving up"? Equipping people to make rational decisions based on evidence and giving them the confidence to make changes - that's a slow process. There seems to be a trend for humans becoming brighter and more socially connected. (See Pinker's decline of violence work.) I'm making the assumption that those trends will also stamp out boneheadedness with regards to prohibition.
- gnaritas 15y ago> Organised religion fizzled away when faced with widespread access to the facts Where? That's certainly not the case in America; access to facts does nothing more than make believers even more devout.
- geden 15y agoIn the minds of the educated middle class.
- gnaritas 15y agoWho are vastly vastly outnumbered. If facts changed minds, religion wouldn't exist.
- geden 15y agoFacts + time = changed mind. Various primitive gods/spirits probably fitted the available facts pretty well at some point. The educated middle class is perhaps outnumbered, but holds much power (ha like iOS vs Android) in that most teachers are educated middle class. And at least in the UK, teachers seem to be mostly areligious.
- gnaritas 15y ago> And at least in the UK, teachers seem to be mostly areligious. Lucky you.