(November 16, 2020 at 6:52 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: According to mere reality.
Let's try again. Dead religion has zero members. I presume we agree, what with the dead in there and all?
Yeah, I’m having a hard time understanding John’s objections to this.
Let’s say there’s one, single person left alive who believes in the religion of classical Greece. This person takes the religion very seriously - the gods, the rites, the ritual sacrifices, the whole bit. That person is on his way to the traditional site of a local shrine to propitiate Minerva when he is run over by a bus load of Armenian tourists and is killed instantly.
There are now no more believers in the religion of classical Greece. Why would it stop being a religion?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson