Message from @DankCaesar
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I mean if there are products, it implies a market existed for people to sell to
Simple lack of religion, godlessness, unmoors one from reality
Nig
Reality becomes abstracted away
Without an external meaningful lynchpin of existence
Ger
yeah
Any error can be believed from godlessness
religion is direction in all aspects of life, the only alternative is nihilism
yeah
Disagree completely
Yeah it is that simple
Religion has been very very important
We can see where religion has faded
Great pathologies emerge
if people do not have time honored religion they are subject to believing any random thing each year
I agree but I think it's still important
To which the religious are resistant
Relatively
For example having kids
Marriage
Thinking sodomy is evil
Etc.
yeah
It is more than that Josef, basic to humanity
Anywhere you put man
You get language
And religion
language, money, religion
These two things
Rome, the Byzantine empire, the Ottoman Empire all shaped Europe and were based on religious beliefs
Not money
Religion is not just the actual aspects
None of those empires would have expanded without religion
But a holistic view of existence as MEANINGFUL
This is motivationally essential
Religion gives existence meaning
And keeps our psyche grounded
also interestingly, despite the modern stereotype based on southern hicks that religiosity and learning are antithetical, throughout history it's been the religious priests who kept literacy and historical records going
More than that, nothing else really does