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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
...and other political movements. Wherever people prefer to feel rather than think, reduce complex issues to emotionally reassuring narratives of good vs evil, erect taboos and shibboleths around speech and behaviour, and conspicuously demonstrate their own moral virtue while denouncing and shaming dissenters, you’re seeing the social function of religion play out.
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And most human decision making is based on emotion and then we wrap it up in logic to make us feel rational. It’s a shortcut that allows humanity to exist without endless analysis paralysis.
It’s a really good point above that religion isn’t dwindling it’s being replaced by other forms of non-rational belief to replace a human need.