Re: Building a free society

Abaddon de Barathrum wrote:
religion is believeing in something that has no evidence for its own
existence.

On that basis, quantum mechanics would be a religion.

Religions are quite willing to change what fictitious thing they
believe in even to the point of making it not seem like a thing.

Theisms are a blatant kind of religion proclaiming that there is a god
that is a god above all other gods that gives their dogma authority. I
think probably all religions are theisms, but it just gets hard to
identify their gods.

What Dennet is trying to do by defining religions as natural phenomena
of society is to open up the subject of religions to rational
discussion.

--
Ron

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