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i wish we could leave religion behind as a species. believing in made up bullshit has held us back for thousands of years, regardless of what flavor of made up bullshit people happen to believe in at the moment. anything positive about religion can be had without the made up bullshit.
Imagine.
I wonder if you can
I fear though that leaving behind religion just means people will find other things to religiously latch onto. Look at techbros with technology, cults who kiss the feet of the regular vanilla human who leads them, analysts with market systems.
The need to believe in something bigger and more powerful than us that can save and guide us seems to be built into a lot of humans on a fundamental level, sadly.
It's not even sad if you approach it right. We are each an expression of our species. Our species is an expression of life on this planet, which is an expression of the sun, which is an expression of the galaxy, which is an expression of the universe.
We are part of something bigger. Will that something bigger swoop in with a giant hand and save us from our mistakes and tragedies? Probably not. But faith in something bigger can help the background subroutines in the brain run better, and that could actually provide useful guidance.
A good religion is probably the best thing to latch onto like that, since the main focus is living a harmonious and moral life. Better than worshipping the machine god at the end of time. Granted, bad religions can twist that devotion into tribalism, and cast off the moral and harmonious focus. That's definitely a problem. But I think that problem casts all religion in that light, which the older I get seems unfair and short-sighted.