• Jake [he/him]
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    541 year ago

    We would be ~1000 years in the future right now without Abrahamic faiths.

    • @LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      I’m an atheist and think we’d be better off if we moved beyond religion. That said, I don’t think it’s true we’d be so much farther ahead without it.

      Looking at early humans I think religion was a competitive advantage, because it organized groups of people who might not otherwise have worked together. It allowed us to move beyond tribal affiliation, to create a common “operating system” for societies and conceive of and pursue multigenerational goals.

      I think we can do all that stuff now without religion, but also think we need more explicitly defined structures and institutions to fill the role religion has played.

    • @kromem@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I really liked that in Raised by Wolves it was an alternate timeline where there was no Christianity.

      Instead the religious fanatics eradicating the atheists were Mithraics.