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You can boil any human aspiration evocative of hope, happiness, and progress to this defintion of "religious". Does this invalidate the drive?
by aswanson 18y ago
You can boil any human aspiration evocative of hope, happiness, and progress to this defintion of "religious". Does this invalidate
the drive?
- robg 18y agoTo me, it validates the drive. Just as language is universal, so is the effort to make meaning. Those two qualities bind us as humans.
- zupatol 18y agoHe seems to define religion as "stories you make up to convince yourself you won't die". Religion is a lot more than that, but this part of religion does seem a bit dumb.
- greendestiny 18y agoIts not about hope, its about a belief giving you that ultimate existential succor. Its particularly noticeable in this article which is so dismissive of religious hope in the afterlife.