@an_onanist@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agoSure all primitive societies create a supernatural belief system, but mine is true.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1360
arrow-up1360imageSure all primitive societies create a supernatural belief system, but mine is true.lemmy.world@an_onanist@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-square@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•3 days agoa “religion” is just a very elaborate model that’s used to describe and predict the world at some point. we’ve replaced theology with theory, but the core concept stays the same.
minus-square@an_onanist@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 days agoExcept that theory has been proven effective and theology is guesswork of desert peasants.
minus-square@zalgotext@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 days agoHey c’mon now, that’s erasure of the plains peasants, the forest peasants, the mountain peasants, the island peasants, and the swamp peasants
a “religion” is just a very elaborate model that’s used to describe and predict the world at some point. we’ve replaced theology with theory, but the core concept stays the same.
Except that theory has been proven effective and theology is guesswork of desert peasants.
Hey c’mon now, that’s erasure of the plains peasants, the forest peasants, the mountain peasants, the island peasants, and the swamp peasants