It's more of a logical consistency argument. Those who subscribe to the popular, dogmatic beliefs today have no reason to think they wouldn't do the same at a different moment in history.
And in addition that the people who are primly orthodox now would have been primly orthodox in the past. A thought they would hate, since past orthodoxies are so incompatible with present ones, but which is nonetheless likely to be true.
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Religion is an evolutionary work. It’s about man moving man away from his animalistic instincts (man came from Animal) & into our higher consciousness. It teaches morality at scale. It’s not perfect bc it’s created & interpreted by man but it’s a pillar of western civilization
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Yep. Status quo loving conservatives and centrists would also have been 100% co-opted apparatchiks if they had lived under Lenin or Stalin.
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There have always been sheep and goats. Probably at some ratio defined by the cooperation/competition tradeoff
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Interesting. Maybe those needs are embedded in our hardware and zeitgeist is post-rationalisation of something that took a place that just exists.
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By the same token, those who are today proudly unorthodox would have also been proudly unorthodox in other contexts. You’re arguing that people are pure products of their environment, which seems to take away any agency at all
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And the people who take pleasure in enforcing orthodoxy now would have been the people taking pleasure in enforcing the orthodoxies of the past.
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