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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I believe it started with a sense of security. Don't worry, there's a reason and someone is in control of this shit show. Feels better than we're on this crazy freight train called life that is almost completely out of control, no one knows where we're going, no one knows how we're going to get there, and we basically have no control over any of it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh someone is in control don't worry about that!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's just the Catholics. We're talking about all religions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If this is referring to Buddhism, I believe that's considered a philosophy and not a religion. I think you need a god for it to be a religion.

Or both, idk it's all up for interpretation? Just looked it up and "they" can't agree. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There's a degree of just feeling viscerally like the supernatural is around us, too. Not everyone has that, but some people certainly do. Then yeah, we also want to answers the big questions in a satisfying, even comforting way. Particularly modern monotheism has a deep component of offering a way the world is fair, actually, despite all appearances.

It looks like religion is a thing that started with modern humans, just based on archeological finds, but I don't know why or if it was adaptive. Some scholars will talk about the beginning of religious finds as a beginning of abstract thought, but it seems to me that even a damn dog can make a creative guess about how the world works, so that's not it.

[โ€“] ripcord 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but it seems to me that even a damn dog can make a creative guess about how the world works

...it can?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, depending on how profound you need it to be. I had my dog jump into a neighbor's car once. Clearly, he figured a different one would take him fun places if the usual one did, generalising the concept.