"One of the gods announced one day, 'There is only one God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' and all the other gods--died laughing." (T.S. Zarathustra, Nietzsche.) "The death of that presumptuous deity presages the rebirth of the laughing gods." Lampert
"Nietzsche sets out to accomplish philosophy's rule over religion by generating values true to the earth, opposite values to those employed by Plato in his successful accomplishment of philosophy's rule over religion." Lampert
Monday, November 17, 2014
Sunday, November 9, 2014
The cognitive science of religion
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/09/why-are-millenials-unfriending-organized-religion.html
This collection of data all suggests that built into our psychological make-up is a way of interpreting the world that makes us particularly susceptible to religion and religious ideas. It might be possible to move past these innate biases, but Banerjee suggests that it’d be difficult. “Overriding these sorts of intuitions may be effortful,” she says, “and therefore not nearly as easy to eliminate as Krauss suggests.”
“Change is always one generation away,” he told the audience, referencing the rapid cultural shifts on gay marriage and slavery, “so if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children, religion will go away in a generation, or at least largely go away. And that’s what I think we have an obligation to do.”
This collection of data all suggests that built into our psychological make-up is a way of interpreting the world that makes us particularly susceptible to religion and religious ideas. It might be possible to move past these innate biases, but Banerjee suggests that it’d be difficult. “Overriding these sorts of intuitions may be effortful,” she says, “and therefore not nearly as easy to eliminate as Krauss suggests.”
“Change is always one generation away,” he told the audience, referencing the rapid cultural shifts on gay marriage and slavery, “so if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children, religion will go away in a generation, or at least largely go away. And that’s what I think we have an obligation to do.”
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