MM I think the thread title is what is provocative for people. I understand what you mean - that all people are looking for--need even--something to fill certain needs. Namely a method for answering "life's questions" (whatever that means for them) and providing some sort of structure by which to make judgments and decisions.
My issue is with constructing the idea that when something replaces something, or serves the same purpose as something, the two things can be called the same thing. Just because science replaces religion doesn't make it religion.
My issue is with constructing the idea that when something replaces something, or serves the same purpose as something, the two things can be called the same thing. Just because science replaces religion doesn't make it religion.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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