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 understand your point but I disagree. You can read Neuhmamn or even Campbell's work to a complete description of how religion describes a meta narrative with enough informational power to arrange societies. I don't know if you read all of maps of meaning but it describes this.
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I've read Maps of Meaning and watched Peterson's talks. If by Campbell you mean Joseph Campbell, I've read his work too. Both Campbell and Peterson have some good insights, but I feel they mix too much mysticism & obscurantism into their arguments for me to find them convincing.
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"The pork example" came from the pork transmitted deseas echinococcus. So it was an évolutionnary avantage at that time.
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In the original draft of the article, I included this argument (except the disease in question was trichinosis). It turned out to have so little evidence behind it that I decided it wasn't even worth mentioning.
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