RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?
December 13, 2019 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2019 at 8:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I could give a long winded version of this answer..but, no, it's not. While many religious systems contain a mountain of ipse dixit statements about nature, these don't serve the purpose of explaining nature, but of buttressing the central tenet of every faith, which is mans place in relation to nature, broadly.
Religion isn't an understanding or an attempt at an understanding. It's an assertion. What we wish for, or demand, or desire. Religion says that this is what is true. Not what we see. To use Borus example, above, religion isn't the notion that a man in the sky makes it rain - it's the system created to make the man in the sky do what we want, the system that describes our duties to the man in the sky, if he's going to do what we want. Religion is -always- about us, not The World™.
Religion isn't an understanding or an attempt at an understanding. It's an assertion. What we wish for, or demand, or desire. Religion says that this is what is true. Not what we see. To use Borus example, above, religion isn't the notion that a man in the sky makes it rain - it's the system created to make the man in the sky do what we want, the system that describes our duties to the man in the sky, if he's going to do what we want. Religion is -always- about us, not The World™.
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