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Originally Posted by mentor
This is at the core of our love of stories. Now we look to the big screen for these heroic tales. Funny we can separate truth from fiction in movies for the most part, but we won't question a 2000 year old myth.
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Which was my point in starting this thread. That although people claim to no longer "believe" or "need" religion, I postulate that not only do we have an innate need for religious myth but it is inseparable from the fabric of cultural evolution.
Exactly right. There is a thin line between truth and fiction. People have to believe in something, so we can derive purpose out of our existence. Religion is one way that is provided that for us. Atheists claim they have no need for such things but I assure you they do, they derive their purpose, there need for belief from other places.
Reason is a belief, and the pursuit of reason can become a type of religion in itself. It has its own mythic structure and its own heroes, its own creation stories, and requires faith in somethings that are near unprovable--in the negative. For example:
There is no God.
It cannot be proven that their is no God, nor can they prove the universe begun in a "big bang," or that we sprung from the primordial ooze.
All systems of believe require faith on some level or another, even perpetual skepticism.
