4 Aug 2022 7:59 am
"it is a thing that people are expected to pretend is true so that the society functions properly."FOS » 03 Aug 2022, 8:26 pm » wrote: ↑ The sort of default position on religion is that it is something that is true or false. But this cannot be..and it is a rather silly thing to think.
Did Christianity spread because there were some really good arguments for Christianity? No...it spread because some kings converted and then conquered Europe and later much of the rest of the world. Islam also conquered via conquest. And Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. All religions follow power.
If your ruling class is a certain religion, you convert to it. And then your descendants carry on because it was tradition. The process of persuading people that it is true is irrelevirreleva4ar3ly causes anything at all.
Thus blacks in the usa converted to christianity...and Hong Kong to the Anglican church...etc.
and it makes sense that it should be thus because religion fundamentally is not about what is true. It is instead about getting everyone in a society on the same page about their ethics, laws, values, and survival strategy.. Nobody uses religion to say...build airplanes or split atoms.. it is a thing that people are expected to pretend is true so that the society functions properly.
With that paradigm in mind...how can we explain the rise of atheism?
Well that is easy to understand if you realize that our rulers are invisible these days. We have no idea who they are. We know they are bribing the politicians...but their name and address is more obscure.
So sense all people derive their religion from their ruling class...an invisible ruling class can naturally be expected to produce atheism and nihilism...and the rise in atheism coincides quite well with the decline of the visible wasp elite..
The spirit is a real thing that you feel, that's the reason Christianity began and has continued on.
These people also seem to be receiving some kind of a spirit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPmA3USJdI