RE: An Essay about Atheism in Latin
September 11, 2019 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2019 at 10:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC, it might just be that people are anti-intellectual.
Religions are just ornate expressions of human cognition and behavior, after all. To find that an anti- intellectual population has an anti-intellectual religion wouldn’t be surprising.
That’s the only trouble with theism, really. More accurately, it’s the fundamental issue that every problematic effect of theistic belief and authority reduces to. It encourages us. It asserts that the fabric of reality does -and should- conform to the basest impulses of man. OFC the gods dont like uppity creatures poking their noses where they shouldn’t, learning things they ought never know.
Neither do we. As you note, this isn’t limited to religion, it’s just that religion provides great examples of it. Beautiful and poetic and culturally important examples, lol.
The lesson of classical antiquity, which is the basis of all western theism, was that man had a place....that place was below the gods, and that reaching further than that would bring misery and misfortune. It was evil.
Religions are just ornate expressions of human cognition and behavior, after all. To find that an anti- intellectual population has an anti-intellectual religion wouldn’t be surprising.
That’s the only trouble with theism, really. More accurately, it’s the fundamental issue that every problematic effect of theistic belief and authority reduces to. It encourages us. It asserts that the fabric of reality does -and should- conform to the basest impulses of man. OFC the gods dont like uppity creatures poking their noses where they shouldn’t, learning things they ought never know.
Neither do we. As you note, this isn’t limited to religion, it’s just that religion provides great examples of it. Beautiful and poetic and culturally important examples, lol.
The lesson of classical antiquity, which is the basis of all western theism, was that man had a place....that place was below the gods, and that reaching further than that would bring misery and misfortune. It was evil.
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