RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
October 17, 2023 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2023 at 10:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 17, 2023 at 10:22 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: If by religious standard, you mean simple belief, yeah, that makes since. Still, religion is synonymous with belief, and that does not have to be about a supreme being at birth, right?
Neither beliefs nor religions have to be about supreme beings. If we were going to do a deep dive, we could confront how religions that have gods are still not based on those gods. The gods are superstitions. They're juicers - a shortcut to authority. Authority for what? Now we're talking religion. The god isn't the religion, it's the stuff the god allegedly cosigns. Once we're there we begin to see why religion doesn't have to be taught. There's no belief about how the world should be that can't come to an individual genuinely...and, if we're really following through, we have to accept that every bit of all of the contents of all of the worlds religions -did- come to at least one person, once, genuinely.
This is what sociologists and anthropologists mean when they talk about religion being natural to human beings. It's actually a defining characteristic of our species. We don't consider ourselves fully modern until we start displaying religious thinking.
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