This is more or less what happened in the West, but even the feeling of being stuck is based on post-Christian assumptions about what religion consists in. Lose those assumptions and the feeling goes away.https://twitter.com/tomxhart/status/1023962211763539968 …
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The key distinction is not belief vs. disbelief, but one of attitudes. Two men see the same Sun, and both know that materially speaking it is a ball of gas etc. etc. But one understands what the Sun really is as far as he is concerned: a giver of Life.
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And this significance to him is worth his worship. The other man, the secular man, does not see the fact that without the Sun he could not exist as a reason to give offerings. Whatever is "believed" about the Sun is just the natural coloration of this difference in attitude.
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Further, you’re essentially restating the position of Jung and Peterson that I mention later on. I’m not sayng this is wrong, and I agree with it to an extent; but it doesn’t get to the heart of the dilemma.
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It's more complicated than that, because even Jung and Peterson are in a sense replicating the problem, or at least typical interpretations of them are. I wrote about it here: http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/518/894 …
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It’s an interesting backstory. You basically re-tell the story that Nietzsche identified in the 19th century. My question is really: How do we go beyond that? Simply going back isn’t an option in my view; it can only be done insincerely.
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