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Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?

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Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?
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RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?
December 15, 2019 at 9:48 pm
(December 14, 2019 at 1:17 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Is Harry Potter an attempt to understand the world? Marx Brothers? NFL? That fucking cricket game they play elsewhere? Any of that?

Exactly.

Religion is not a SERIOUS attempt to understand the world. It is an attempt at an explanation made out of thin air that sounds comforting to a lot of people.

But in my experience as a former theist, if you actually try to live in accordance with the belief system's explanations and predictions, you're in for a world of hurt, because it's literally un-tethered from the Real World. You'll be embracing things you shouldn't embrace, avoiding things you shouldn't avoid, and just generally fucking yourself over.
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Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World?

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Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by EgoDeath - December 13, 2019 at 1:56 am
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by Ranjr - December 13, 2019 at 10:07 am
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by Duty - December 13, 2019 at 10:34 am
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by Chad32 - December 13, 2019 at 10:38 am
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by no one - December 13, 2019 at 12:42 pm
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by no one - December 13, 2019 at 12:59 pm
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by no one - December 13, 2019 at 11:03 pm
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by Sal - December 14, 2019 at 12:54 pm
RE: Is Religion an Attempt to Understand the World? - by mordant - December 15, 2019 at 9:48 pm

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