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Does the world need religion?

"commonsenseplz" aside, do you think religion is a vital part of humanity?

>> No.4107510

Shared characteristic is vital to keep a community intact and maintain social norms and order.

Religion is all of it.

>> No.4107511

In the early days, I'd say yes. Religion has helped shape modern morale into what it should be, but that's about it in my opinion. The concept of a magical sky-daddy secretly judging everyone can only be harmful to an already functioning society.

>> No.4107513

No.

>>4107510
Back to /pol/ with you.

>> No.4107515

Was it Neitczhe (valiant effort imo) that said "god is dead and humans most believe in themselves" I remember this because he was an important figure in the modernism age in Norwegian literature.

>> No.4107516

Not science.
>first reply from faggatroll 3000
Doublesage!

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>>4107513
>>4107516

>> No.4107518

>>4107515
Yeah, it was Nietzsche, but his babble shouldn't matter, since he was insane.

>> No.4107525

People accept if they aren't as wealthy/healthy/etc. when they believe they have something to lean on

And I guess the concept of something like the last judgement keeps (some) people from exploiting other people

As a general rule I'd say it makes sense if it help you to get through your days

>> No.4107526
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>>4107517
It's not that I hate you.
It's not even that EVERYONE hates you.

It's that you are intrinsically hateful.

>> No.4107530

>>4107518
He wasn't insane throughout the extent of his literature and writing, he went insane from syphilis at the end of his life. It was entirely conditional and unrelated to his philosophy.

>> No.4107534

>>4107504
No.
Humans still do though.

>> No.4107535

I wouldn't say it's vital since adopting other spiritual paths can fulfill similar feelings (emptiness, celestial justice, cosmic order, etc.), having science can explain the world and having social institutions can organize our daily lives and societies.

I'd be more interested in the question :"is religion an inevitable part of humanity?" Since almost everyone passes through a stage of identification towards or against religion during their teenager years, and almost everyone has what could be called a religious feeling (i.e. the feeling that something is beyond human comprehension with a surnatural force) that can be manifested through religion (deities), science* (laws of Nature), philosophy (justice), etc. We just have to know if a human nature exists in the sphere of metaphysical cognitions. For example, Jung postulated the existence of archetypes common to everyone in a hereditary manner.

*A good scientific perspective assumes that we can understand Nature, but it isn't so clear with such ideas like the collapse of the wavefunction, for instance.

>> No.4107536

>>4107526

And you are intrinsically butthurt.