But not all cultures have the notion of God as part of the cultural furniture.
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that's fine. Not all of them believe in a round earth either. Lots of things can be culturally suppressed.
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You seem to think the god idea is universally & eternally relevant. Mightn't it just die out in some cultures as ideas do?
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it might. But they doesn't make it true or false. And it doesn't make God belief good or bad. It's irrelevant.
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Exactly. That's what I mean. No values to it so how can there be psychology to it?
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This is what post-theistic societies are like. The idea is irrelevant. It cld become relevant again later if eg immigration
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or if suppression of theistic intuitions and questions somehow fails
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If they get triggered again. Religious belief drops when psychological & social needs met by society. If they weren't...
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But again with 'suppression ' here you seem to be suggesting ideas of God can't just die out. They have to be squashed. Why?
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