RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 19, 2023 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2023 at 12:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We have another thread you may enjoy that swirls around the question of whether everyone is religious. I think it would be difficult to explain how god beliefs struggled along for 40-48k of it's 50k or so years (at least) without supreme deities..if we were fatalistically or deterministically predisposed towards believing in them. The short version of a long story from my opinions in that thread is that I don't think that we're predisposed to believe in supreme beings or even gods. I think we're predisposed to religious thinking. God's are an overlay...though even here your point may apply, when we imagine gods we imagine them as meaningfully human-alike because of course we do.
Everything worth a shit is like us, somehow, amiright? We have...difficulties.....believing otherwise.
Everything worth a shit is like us, somehow, amiright? We have...difficulties.....believing otherwise.
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