/lit/ - Literature

People who leave religion behind but replace that with science as if science is a faith and not a method

>>5083961

To the common man, science is presented as a religion, a method far beyond his power or indeed his comprehension that is applied to the ends that the ruling class sees fit: magic to make the crop yields increase, magic to make our enemies explode, magic to let us talk to each other from miles away. Because he is disincentivized from practicing science, he has no other way of looking at it. It's like medieval Europe with its ban on the vulgate.

>>5083961
But Anon, religion is utterly inescapable in the human condition. Even people who claim to have no religion in reality subscribe to one, even if they do so unawares, and even if it does not carry the typical trappings of 'religion' as we understand it.

Take /pol/, for example. The vast majority of them are atheists, and yet they are not free from religion. Anti-Semitism is their religion. "The Jews" are their gods, and their faith that "The Jews" control every aspect of the world is as ironclad as any Christian's faith in Providence. They claim they hate "The Jews," but they would be nothing without them, because their existence, and the imagined resistance which that existence generates, gives their life purpose. Your god doesn't have to be your friend. He can be your enemy, too. What matters is that he's there.

The amount of people who are really and genuinely nonreligious are so small in number that they can probably be dismissed as a genetic anomaly.

>>5083991

>the human condition

yeah nah. It's a product of settled civilization and the need for a non-imminent yet omnipresent Authority that goes with it. Obviously people will believe that there is a greater power invisibly ruling their lives and it is called God - everything but the "it is called God" bit is completely self-evident to anyone who lives in a social structure.

>>5083991
Passion about something != religion
Holding an opinion on something "