Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

[Hume]

Why do we have religious credences, if they are so tenuously connected to evidence? Van Leeuwen suggests that religious credences function to support group identities: They guide symbolic actions (for example, ritual behaviors) that signal group allegiance; and by professing “belief” in religious doctrines, people indicate and partly constitute their membership in a social group.

Notably, the second function is best served if the religious credence is not well supported by factual evidence.

Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen argues that factual beliefs (for example, that there’s beer in the fridge) differ greatly from ...

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[Litmus]

Why do we have religious credences, if they are so tenuously connected to evidence? Van Leeuwen suggests that religious credences function to support group identities: They guide symbolic actions (for example, ritual behaviors) that signal group allegiance; and by professing “belief” in religious doctrines, people indicate and partly constitute their membership in a social group.

Notably, the second function is best served if the religious credence is not well supported by factual evidence.

Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen argues that factual beliefs (for example, that there’s beer in the fridge) differ greatly from ...

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sometimes it's about that.

it also contains universal moral teachings fit for a multicultural society.

true morality transcends tribalism.

this is also found in religions, christianity and Buddhism especially.

 

[Hume]

sometimes it's about that.

it also contains universal moral teachings fit for a multicultural society.

true morality transcends tribalism.

this is also found in religions, christianity and Buddhism especially.

Why not just study ethics? Why use religion?

 

[Litmus]

Why not just study ethics? Why use religion?

why not?

religions have been doing it longest.

don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

morality matters.

 

[Hume]

why not?

religions have been doing it longest.

don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

morality matters.

Ethics is older than the Christian religion.

 

[Litmus]

What's the difference between mythology and religion?

 

[Litmus]

Ethics is older than the Christian religion.

let's use both.

many fingers point to good.

diversity of tactics.

 

[Hume]

let's use both.

many fingers point to good.

diversity of tactics.

Religion is for dumb people.

 

[Litmus]

ethics gets hijacked by Nazis and sophists.

 

[Hume]

ethics gets hijacked by Nazis and sophists.

Please explain.

 

[Litmus]

Religion is for dumb people.

this is why you're losing.

you're probably a eugenicist population reducer who just hates actual morality.

 

[Litmus]

Please explain.

ethics gets hijacked by Nazis and sophists.

 

[Hume]

this is why you're losing.

you're probably a eugenicist population reducer who just hates actually morality.

You are silly. If this is your best, I won't be reading your comments.

 

[Hume]

ethics gets hijacked by Nazis and sophists.

I see. You are not articulate.

 

[Litmus]

You are silly. If this is your best, I won't be reading your comments.

yes. you lost already.

 

[Into the Night]

Why not just study ethics? Why use religion?

What 'ethics'?

 

[serenity]

Why do we have religious credences, if they are so tenuously connected to evidence? Van Leeuwen suggests that religious credences function to support group identities: They guide symbolic actions (for example, ritual behaviors) that signal group allegiance; and by professing “belief” in religious doctrines, people indicate and partly constitute their membership in a social group.

Notably, the second function is best served if the religious credence is not well supported by factual evidence.

Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen argues that factual beliefs (for example, that there’s beer in the fridge) differ greatly from ...

ndpr.nd.edu

If there is no faith in anything else is possible then everyone has to use their unique brain to navigate space mutually evolving in this moment changing form conceived cell to decomposed corpse when living uniquely in plain sight happens cradle to grave when each body is adapting to the moment every rotation of the planet their body changes form since created by a conception from previous ancestral lineage.

Equally evolving as conceived to live as life becomes everything left alive next rotation specifically means the total sum evolution ends this rotation continuing the eternal changes of results never same details added again next rotation.