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/ …
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I completely disagree but like the text a lot. I would argue you are cherry picking points of each religion when you should see it as a meta history (that is actually the point of maps of meaning). Don't argue for a specific line of some religion see them all as one thing.
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The problem with this reasoning is that many religious edicts are mutually exclusive (like the pork example). And the commonalities of religions are too vague to amount to anything. So, such a meta-history cannot comprise a coherent system by which to organize a society.
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