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I think that the acceptance and celebration of this kind of thinking has increased, or, maybe I'm just more exposed to it through media.

• lupire 3y ago
  How do you explain the history of world religion?
  • itishappy 3y ago
    Has religion been proven false?
    • apetresc 3y ago
      Well, maybe not, but most of the big ones are at least mutually exclusive. So to the OP's point, at various periods throughout history at least ~80% of the population were "believing false things", even if we can't agree on which 80% those were.
    • thfuran 3y ago
      To the extent they can be, yes.
    • default-kramer 3y ago
      Whether or not a certain religion is "proven false" is generally not a productive question. But many religious people would proudly state that they would continue to hold whatever sacred belief they have even if it were proven wrong. So I think the popularity of religion does show that people want to believe false things, regardless of whether the religion is true or false or (most commonly) unfalsifiable.