On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 9:57:43 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > My guess, even if "young Crowell" objects, is that religion confers an > evolutionary advantage to those so, deluded. Thus they, we, breed more > offspring with this psychological trait, whilst the socialists doth > diminish, hence, their mad- rush by progressives, worldwide, to embrace the > Islamists as their chums, those wielders of the jihad. Chief enemy? Oh, any > nationalist of any type will do. In any case, as it confers evolutionary > advantage, the religions will evolve in their own Darwinian fashion, > because around these regions, them's the rules! Nationalism, can surely be > suicidal among the pig-ignorant, but among the more nuanced it too, can be > am effective tool of survival. With religions tuned toward survival, even > yes, postmortem, survival, as illusionary, as this may be; this also is a > good evolutionary trait! May, the Spaghetti Monster guide thy path! > > For subsistence people the distinction between nature and spirits or supernature does not exist, and these provide a narrative framework for communicating information about the environment. We more modern people no longer really have a need for mythic thinking for survival, but it is still there. It has been used as a way to control people and society.
As someone on the more progressive side of things, I have mixed sense about Islam. I am opposed to any mistreatment of Muslims, but I see the religion as frankly pernicious. I read a translation of the Koran after 9/11 and frankly the only book I ever read that shocked with as much ideological horror is Adolf Hitler's *Mein Kampf*. During the cold war we did not permit Russian communists to emigrate to the US if they refused to renounce communism. I can almost see the same with Islam, but for our Constitutional protection of religious freedom. Some projections has Islam as the world majority world religion by 2070, but based on other projections the world implosion may be underway and Islam will just feast on the rotting corpse of the modern world --- never to arise again. I think humanity is approaching a sort of peak of all that we may come to know, prove, discover, create and invent. I think before long Homo sapiens will be slouching back to a stone age. The whole period we are in with civilization may be little more than an intermediate period between the Pleistocene stone age where the Earth was rich and abundant and the next stone age where Earth will be depleted and polluted. If so then mythic thinking might again have real survival benefits. If Islam takes control of the start into the next stone age, then frankly I could care less. My point with respect to this list though is that I think this is supposed to be largely about scientific questions and subjects. I did not subscribe to this in order to get screeds about Islam or any other religion. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1474c97d-d10b-4ef5-839e-a8be0850b6be%40googlegroups.com.
