Message from @Deleted User
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The trauma of knowing that there is an end is severe. Maybe consciousness in the self-aware kind is an evolutionary mistake, and humanity is just a passing blip.
This has been one of the solutions posed to the Fermi paradox. That any species who becomes sufficiently advanced to be self-aware always destroys itself being unable to deal with the existential dilemma.
Biological evolution could very well be dependant on blind process and ignorance to succeed.
we've had the knowledge of our own existance for thousands of years
why do you think that it hasn't become destructive yet
We have had the safety net of religion for thousands of years. But only recently has man become objective and rational enough as to realise the shortcomings of mythological explanations. And not even yet on a large scale, most humans still believe in fairy tales, which is the only thing between humanity and the abyss.
you act like the belief in "fairy tales" is a detrimental thing for human development
atheism has no tradition
Well, here's why. Sure, religion keeps you from existential crisis, but it also keeps you irrational. If you want humans to develop they have to be rational, and this is incompatible with religion without being schizophrenic.
It doesn't keep you irrational at all, where do you get this
Innovations is haulted by intellectual luddites called 'devout religious people'.
If you believe in God, you believe it has rational basis.
to describe religion as oppressive you'd logically apply the same to all human culture
You believe that God has explanatory power.
You believe that God causes you to travel into the afterlife.
It is no co-incidence that society has been moving into a secular post-cultural mode.
The vast masses of people dont need to be rational in the scientific sense
The masses are not naturally atheistic
Yeah, the masses of people don't need to be, but regardless religion is still irrational
It's broken down to having zero evidence, and purely being based upon "faith"
God, afterlife, the whole bit...
Theism?
I think theism is the result of psychological evolution
Sure.
basically the amalgamation of the truest of all values
humans have a tendency towards hierarchy
I'm not talking about theism, I'm talking about religion
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