And then "people in the sky but further away" followed by "people from another dimension"

This is why I worship the Sun. It's actually there and is provably responsible for all life.

All these clankers still worship magic rocks.

Of course you do, you're a space noodle. Whatelse would you worship?

the sun might be responssible for life, but the full moon was responsible for getting me laid. (and the wine, and the really nice dinner... and uh. some other stuff.) (it certainly wasn't my ability to flirt.)

Just out of interest - apropos of nothing you understand - did it hit your eye like a big pizza pie?

I want to point out another stage: Sexy Post-Religion

No, that was a moray (eel).

Naw, now we’ve cut out the abstraction and worship demagogues directly. :(

So.. A sexy religion that worships mail carriers? 😛

But don't pray to it. Pray to Joe Pesci. He gets things done.

IDK, the Sun is older and meaner.

Bottom left corner people are literally astronauts.

Nah, astronauts come TO the sky

I appreciate the reference. RIP

Where do they come from when they touch down?

I'm still on step 2. My magic animals demand I feed them.

My journey was:

Wait, there's a ton of religions, most of which think that they're the ones with the one immutable truth?

Then none of them are right, or it would be obvious.

I still spent years with Christian apologia and god-in-the-gaps nonsense but at least my personal moral and religious development was rooted in doubt rather than faith.

Somehow both of my parents were disappointed in my atheism.

I thought clanker was for Ai? I really like that term for it, a modern version. It dont fit for people. Historically a clanker would be thought of as a broken beat old car, or maybe, some other broken down machinery. no?

So a Ghost concert. I'd get onboard with that.

Wait... What was the worship of rocks called?

Well, what with all that bowing and scraping in front of the holy stones, the smaller stone would sometimes fall off of the big one. That style of worship was thus called "rock and roll".

I think the word you're looking for is clunker

If rock n roll is a religion, well then, Take me to Church.

I prefer the religion dedicated to the worship of the curiour /ref

Yes, when you grow up you worship Sol the sun god.

I was reading a Korean web novel. It was comedy smut tower climbing thing. I picked it up because the pliy sounded ridiculous and I wanted something stupid to read.

There was a mission about resolving a religious war. The main character somehow tricked both sides into thinking they were the decended god.

Both sides worshipped the same god. Dialects and translations changed the name and nobody compared the books because one side was a bunch of fanatics that took the teachings extremely literally. Including something like 99 commandments.

At the very end she blew my mind with some BS they spat about they love all of humanity because everyone is flawed. The commandments are there so you know how flawed you are. They don't force faith because that's not freedom.

I think that's how it should be. I believe in freedom of religion. Anything that brings you peace and makes you a better person.

The issue is always when faith is used to sin. Enforcing your beliefs on others, infringing on thier freedom, taking money/assets. The list goes on.

I'm not an atheist. I'm agnostic.

Pls onahole me senpai

Where does "John Travolta is coming to invade earth in a few hundred years so you have to give me enough money to tell you the entire story of his alien race" fit in?

Spacecraft.

Same 🤷🏻

Beatlemania

Imo freedom from religion is more important than freedom of religion. When a religion seeks to control people it should not be allowed as part of society anymore.

Of course they were. Otherwise they'd have to admit to believing bullshit all their life.

Dude...the sun is real.

Then none of them are right, or it would be obvious.

Why would it be obvious?

I used to basically worship my friend for some fucking reason. I really believed he could not fuck up.

Ex-friend. Now my "beliefs" are hard to comprehend even, but center around certain values, that I invoke all the time.

Far more real and practical than sky man ever was.

The current incarnation is economics, which filled the control mechanism void vacated by religion after the Enlightenment. A bunch of arbitrary rules, conjured out of thin air by the ruling class, protected from scrutiny, and imposed upon the masses.

• Churches and cathedrals replaced with banks and financial institutions.
• Priests and clergy replaced with economists and finance officers.
• Mythology replaced with finance.
• God replaced with GDP.

This is not to claim religion and economics shouldn’t play a part in society, they can help with social cohesion and unifying groups for a common goal. My argument is that they should be subservient to the will and needs of the society they exist within, not positioned as their current dictatorial role of casting the societal mould.

Oh yeah? Prove it!

Dayum, I'm hard.

Animism is an umbrella term for early religions that worship objects and/or animals.

Doesn't animism pertain to things that are animate, tho? I thought it was worship of living things in particular.

I remember a lecture long time ago about history of religion and it mentioned rocks, trees and flowers as examples of animism. But my major was very far from that topic, so don't quote me on that.

God of gaps

theres tons of scientific conclusions about a certain thing as well, so all of them must be false?

what, if, one was right and the rest were wrong, as we can observe?

strawman fallacy

What's the strawman? You disagree that people worshipped gods?

they strawmanned the entire catholic faith to "magical being from sky"