Message from @Americana - MD
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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
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
@Americana - MD#3916 What would you build?
@Anglican the latter lol