(March 18, 2018 at 2:03 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(March 18, 2018 at 1:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I wouldn't call older polytheism wiser. Nobody back then had a Stephen Hawking.
IDK. Maybe they were wiser in that they didn't believe in deities who micromanaged their lives. Sure, Osiris might not really exist... but he doesn't look on with a furrowed brow while you maturbate either.
No sorry, for that logic to work you still have to prove that a god or gods are needed as the starting point. Jefferson thought the same thing of the biblical god. He thought that the God of the bible set everything in motion then stepped aside.
It is simply less authoritarian logic but still based on the claim that invisible beings pull our strings.
