Re: [Mind's Eye] Re: Should Atheism be promoted

[Ash]

What I think some are getting at here is that nature has rewarded the 
following adaptations and that our beliefs probably formed around that: awe, 
wonder, inspiration, hope, imagination, compassion and intimate appreciation 
for the things we meet/seek. We lose these things, I know and believe fully 
that, it seems the drive or ignition to fight and defy in the face of 
existential entropy is a gem to preserve in our species. At that cost reason 
cannot triumph today, and hope it never will. Those and other factors I find 
virtuous in many views of our world, and found it in many cultures, 
sciences, and perspectives of the world. Imagination, I think it was (bad 
memory) that turned a dwindling species (Cromagnon?) in Africa into what it 
is today.