But you are making empirical claims based on psychology. These things misfire all the time.

humans cannot feel the same towards equals as they do to a divine power

define religion

explain @Deleted User

Have you heard of 'phantom limbs', where amputees still feel sensations as if they still had their limb?

The body is misfiring, even though it evolved this way.

Just because psychology evolved a certain way does not mean it exists empirically.

There a plenty of examples in psychology of sensory illusions.

There are misfires but this doesn't mean that the reaction itself has no evolutionary purpose

Again, you are confusing subjective purpose with objective empirical claims.

also, this relies on empirical observation, and religion isn't emperical for most people

Yes it is.

unless they have an experience like that

People literally think God will send them to Heaven. That's an empirical claim.

Which there is no evidence for.

Yes it is.

but look at the psychological mechanisms that would lead to that kind of thinking

The divine arbiter would decide whether their actions were meaningful enough to deserve heaven

this gives their actions meaning

I'm not saying that God doesn't give people meaning. I am say that it is based on sensory illusion.

As far as we can tell.

I worship my ancestors tbh

🅱️aganism

Sorry

I'm back

@Americana - MD#3916 You still believe in an afterlife?

Not really

No

I think leaving a legacy is important though

I now have a fidget spinner

god as an actor is hard to prove

What would happen if you learned that you were infertile?

and still hasn't

And building a future for you kids

I would still work towards a better future for my family

My folk in general

Whioe that sounds good

What if your family and folk was killed in a nuclear holocaust? Would you life have no meaning?

Are you a neo-Paganist? (Hedonism) or the 'ancestoral blood and belief' kinda pagan?

I'd still try to build something to leave for the world

Some sort of remnant