Jordan Peterson, Nicholas Nassim Taleb and other popular thinkers contend that even if gods don’t exist, we still need religion, because it evolved to protect us from harms we don’t understand. I wrote about why they are wrong.
@Rabbit_Hole_Maghttps://rabbitholemag.com/debunking-the-secular-case-for-religion/ …
I would describe religion as a system of beliefs and practices founded on the presumption of the existence of supernatural forces.
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This is where people split into: A) That's as much as I want to think about that. B) What is/isn't a supernatural force? How complex does the "system" need to be to count as religion? If the system is all beliefs and no practices is it still religion? Who speaks for the system...
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