RE: Atheism is a religion.
July 17, 2014 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2014 at 11:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 17, 2014 at 5:14 pm)ManMachine Wrote: Which only goes to show that these social constructs forming around atheism are no different to the social constructs that formed the early churches, they all meet the same fundamental human needs and humans are subconsciously smart, why reject a social strategy that works for so many people?You know.....I'm trying to recall the name of a paper I read that touched on this. That if we considered religion and faith (or the accoutrements thereof) to be a moral mechanism, a survival tool - then it's unsurprising to find so many of them. There is value in applying more than one strategy to a problem - speaking from the point of view of adaptive or evolutionarily behaviors. All of these things we see people engaging in that we collectively call religion may just be our own human nature throwing darts at the wall. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it makes us smart, so much as it makes us good at what we do.
Something to be said there, ignoring that what might be considered natural or generally advantageous cannot always be considered right or specifically prudent.
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