RE: Lazy Atheism?
March 6, 2024 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2024 at 12:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Cain and abel are similar takes. Farmer and shepherd. It's no surprise, then, that the pastoralist source insists that god preferred the shepherd to the farmer. That the farmer then went on the represent the thing they hated most - cities, fences, urban people. Same fight continues to play out in the us from barbed wire in the open west to barbed wire in the rio grande. I guess it's just a coinkydink that self identification with the one strongly correlates to self identification with the other.
Anywho, my atheism is as lazy as it possibly could have been. Born that way. I'm as certain that there are no gods as believers are in gods - and for absolutely no actual reason in either case....in all likelihood. In the related but distinct category of religion...a similar possibility arises. Genuine religiosity, not superstition or what your family taught you, is largely dispositional. While we may be able to rationalize that disposition after the fact the stated rationalization is highly unlikely to have been operational in forming it. It comes from a compelling urge to take the world as you see it and make it the way it ought to be, or the absence of the same in our private experience.
It would be intersting to see how people responded to a world that came to them as it ought to be, would they be less religious? Is this the explanation for why religiosity and things hopelessly associated with it, such as gods, declines in a population as wealth and education increase? That it's not so much that we know better because we're wealthier and more educated (there are wealthy educated believers) - but that we feel better wealthy and uneducated and thus have less need of moralizing community to change the world in ways that we think would relieve stressors. Perhaps this is why christianity has turned into a faith without works. The god remains, the moral content is absent, and the effort is low. Conversely, perhaps this is why the white christian supremacists are so animated. The world is very far off how it ought to be for them, and it's full of stressors like other people calling them assholes when they're being assholes. For an identitarian, that's all the time.
Anywho, my atheism is as lazy as it possibly could have been. Born that way. I'm as certain that there are no gods as believers are in gods - and for absolutely no actual reason in either case....in all likelihood. In the related but distinct category of religion...a similar possibility arises. Genuine religiosity, not superstition or what your family taught you, is largely dispositional. While we may be able to rationalize that disposition after the fact the stated rationalization is highly unlikely to have been operational in forming it. It comes from a compelling urge to take the world as you see it and make it the way it ought to be, or the absence of the same in our private experience.
It would be intersting to see how people responded to a world that came to them as it ought to be, would they be less religious? Is this the explanation for why religiosity and things hopelessly associated with it, such as gods, declines in a population as wealth and education increase? That it's not so much that we know better because we're wealthier and more educated (there are wealthy educated believers) - but that we feel better wealthy and uneducated and thus have less need of moralizing community to change the world in ways that we think would relieve stressors. Perhaps this is why christianity has turned into a faith without works. The god remains, the moral content is absent, and the effort is low. Conversely, perhaps this is why the white christian supremacists are so animated. The world is very far off how it ought to be for them, and it's full of stressors like other people calling them assholes when they're being assholes. For an identitarian, that's all the time.
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