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Prunebutt, to asklemmy in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

It’s literally their arguments in a nutshell

Way to go, reducing the worldview of literally every religious person on the planet that is or has ever been alive.

It’s simply a strawman. Some people might have argued like youdo, but those are simply buffoons and/or assholes.

Prunebutt, to asklemmy in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

That’s an obvious strawman, my dude.

Prunebutt, to asklemmy in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

If you’re really interested in an answer and not only trying to dunk on religious people: I’d suggest reading a few philosophical critics of religion. Like Feuerbach and Marx.

Religion always fulfilled a certain function to people. Way back, it was used to answer questions which have been properly answered by science (where does the sun/thunder and lightning come from, etc.). But that’s not the whole picture of religion’s function in society.

People still have an urge to answer questions science can’t/won’t answer (what is right and wrong? *why are we here? how should we treat each other?). Religion fulfills the function answering a subset of these questions.

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