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This is my number one reason not to trust anything hawkers of religion state. And paradoxically I trust new religious manuscripts even less. In the context of
by beezlewax 3y ago
This is my number one reason not to trust anything hawkers of religion state.
And paradoxically I trust new religious manuscripts even less. In the context of the modern world they just seem like obvious hoaxes.
- wharvle 3y agoGetting to watch things like Mormonism (and, to some extent, Scientology, though that's a bit of a different beast) develop under conditions that provide pretty good records and a variety of disinterested accounts, has definitely been instructive for interpreting plausible courses of development of older religions. "Why would all these people lie?" "Why would so many people attest to having seen something that was actually bullshit? It must have happened!" Well... I mean, you'd think so, but not so much, it turns out.