that's fine. Not all of them believe in a round earth either. Lots of things can be culturally suppressed.
-
-
Replying to @ZeroIssueVoter
You seem to think the god idea is universally & eternally relevant. Mightn't it just die out in some cultures as ideas do?
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose
it might. But they doesn't make it true or false. And it doesn't make God belief good or bad. It's irrelevant.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ZeroIssueVoter
Exactly. That's what I mean. No values to it so how can there be psychology to it?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose @ZeroIssueVoter
This is what post-theistic societies are like. The idea is irrelevant. It cld become relevant again later if eg immigration
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose
or if suppression of theistic intuitions and questions somehow fails
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @ZeroIssueVoter
If they get triggered again. Religious belief drops when psychological & social needs met by society. If they weren't...
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @ZeroIssueVoter
Well it does. Both James Lindsay's book & David Silverman's cite studies on this. Ppl get more religious when times are hard
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose
two ways to interpret that. People get more religious. Or people stop neglecting an idea they already implicitly accept as true.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Are you just referring to our evolved tendency to see patterns & agency where they aren't? Or actual conceptions of deities?
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.