• @Geodad@lemmy.world
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    -47 days ago

    I wish people would learn that gods, angels, and demons aren’t real.

    If we as a society could get beyond magical thinking, we could make some real progress as a species.

    • Lemminary
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      127 days ago

      Yes, but people enjoy the mythology from an academic POV.

      • @Geodad@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        I enjoy the stories, but that’s all they are.

        People take their yahweh mythology way too seriously.

        • @pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          67 days ago

          I kind of see mythology as people trying to make sense of the world and themselves. Our hopes and fears and why things happen. We don’t think of it in terms of gods anymore, but we’re still affected by the history of religion and philosophy. We can say we’ve abandoned all these lies about supernatural beings, but I wonder to what degree we’re still operating within the framework it provided.