Dawkins' explanation for religion. Some ideas just seem to scream 'copy me'. Religion is an information virus.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive tho. We need both the tendency to believe in weird shit & weird shit to spread.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I hardly know anyone who believes in God now but so many people who believe in ghosts, mediums, psychics, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
human need spiritual sustenance...that was "opium of the masses" meaning.
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Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev
They need something. Our best hope is it to make it something other than nonsense.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
san harris have reach this rock on his way, how to explain "been lucky or unlucky" everyone i know uses "God", it scales rational.
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Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev
Could you rephrase? I think we have a language barrier there.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
i was talking about explaining the idea of "been lucky" having luck in life...how to do it without the concept of God...
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Replying to @avnerarik @christianjbdev
How do you do it with God? I don't see why God would be indicated. Its not as tho believers in a particular one have more luck.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
you have been "blessed", a lovely family, a cat a dog, a job that you enjoy...God or Nature or Cosmic Justice...religion "try" to explain it
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I don't see the need to explain it with any of those. I was born into a time where these things are possible.
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