(October 9, 2017 at 6:29 pm)Puke Skywalker Wrote: A few people would form cults, and some people would join them. None would ever become as widespread as religion ever became. ThE major religions were invented and literally held sacred because they professed to have answers to some big questions. Many of those questions have since been solved, and what passes for religion today is not actually held sacred by any intelligent person (i.e. the Bible cannot possibly be taken literally, and you would end up an idiot and a criminal if you tried). All that's left is a desire for community, and religion provided that too. So there would be a handful of silly cults.I agree with you. We have the vast body of scientific evidence to explain reality. We have moral philosophy to support reason as a tool for moral thinking. We have history to learn from past mistakes. We have secular government to replace theocracy. We have medicine to replace magical healing rites. There may be an impulse towards religion but religion would never gain the same foothold. It would be a bunch of normal people and a few wackos.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
