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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] sethboy66@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, spirituality is an emergent property with respect to imagination and a lack of omniscience; if something happens that is not explainable by an individual's knowledge they'll find it easy to come up with an imagined explanation.

This is why earlier religions explained things like the seasons, weather, earthquakes, volcanos, stars, etc through imagined gods while those same, evolved, religions don't attempt to do so anymore. We understand them scientifically now.