Problem is - which of the tens of thousands of religions is right? We also can’t assume it’s any of the current ones. Maybe the Egyptians, Romans, Sumerians were right all along? And if you pray to the wrong God, under most religions you’re equally screwed!
Religion never goes away, and there is always a state religion. Harvard was founded as a theological seminary and it still is. The people running it just became so holy that God was no longer needed. There are three ways to persuade a human: Force, trade something, or use moral argument. Religion is the software operating system of a society—the moral code that it runs on. There used to be a holy word that could not be spoken that involved God. Today a different holy word must never be spoken because belief in equality has become sacred. This matters to us because we want impartial evaluation of data. Remember the Covid fiasco? Cheap paper masks became sacred talismans, and various vaccines became sacraments. Meanwhile another group worshipped freedom (or is that free dumb) and argued against the new sacraments .
1 Like