One of the problems with religious dogma is that its obvious absurdities have lead even very smart people into a naive atheism and caused tremendous confusion about the nature of self, meaning and transcendence.
I made no such claim. I just said that this is why religions do it, not that there is no alternative.
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In this case, since these myths allowed control few smart people leaving the church may have been a good price to pay.
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It was much darker. Throughout much of our history, religions were totalitarian. People that were too smart to accept the myth but too stupid to fully understand its role and the consequences of rejection were locked into monasteries or killed.
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