RE: A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike
October 9, 2017 at 8:11 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2017 at 8:15 pm by Succubus.)
(October 9, 2017 at 6:42 am)chimp3 Wrote: Scenario:
At Midnight GMT a small miracle occurs. Everywhere , all at once, religion disappears. Every trace of it. Every holy book, every deity, every hymn, every religious symbol. Every memory of religion disappears from the human mind. Some people wake up and wonder why they are wearing funny hats (We will keep the hats for this exercise). The rest of human memory, culture, cuisine, art, song, industry, technology, science, medicine remains as is.
What do you think will happen?
(October 9, 2017 at 1:14 pm)Succubus Wrote: This thought experiment just can't work unless you are more specific regarding, buildings, for example. If Notre dam Cathedral disappears people will be wondering 'what's that opens pace', it wasn’t there yesterday. If the thing still dominates the Paris skyline then there will be a chorus of 'what the fuck's that? There's far to many paradoxes for this to work.
Quote:The architecture of cathedrals would remain but all links to deities would vanish. Statues, paintings, gone.
Ok, so now I'm scrolling through my music library and I double click 'Handel's Messiah'. Now what happens?
(October 9, 2017 at 4:24 pm)ignoramus Wrote: No, I don't believe religion would return.
It's all about indoctrination. Without it, it cannot work.
It's just a psychological tool. Once we break that cycle, everybody wakes up and we all get on with our lives... No fear, no carrots, no mental gymnastics, no nothing.
Jesus, Shmesus!
Bollocks! All it takes for a new religion is a handful of mugs and one conman.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
