RE: Decline of religion
May 23, 2023 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2023 at 11:13 am by Anomalocaris.)
I think it is perhaps instructive to recall the Roman Empire is thought to have also seen a long decline of established traditional and state sponsored religions from the 1st to the 3rd century, coincident with a rise in large number of esoteric cults of various provenance. It is probably this fractured cultscape that facilitated a boastfully anti-rational, Credo quia absurdum, cult called Christianity to opportunistically and virulently reassert the primacy of a single, much more smothering, religion. So decline in religion does not necessarily betoken a decline in stupidity and gullibility, it may just endow more cunningly opportunistic cults with a more open field.