I consider that almost all the dilemmas and violent debates over/out of religion come from the fact that every religion/confession/religious manifestation asserts about itself to be divine. This is the main issue about Religion in general, because, from this assertion come many misunderstandings: religious precepts are immutable, cannot be crossed, broken or dismissed. On the other hand, a(any) religion that is divine (we assume that) has no alternative. Therefore it should be unique, one of a kind – thus all assume the position of ”the only One,” instead of adopting the position of „one love, many lovers.”
So, in this sense, how would we consider religious manifestations, as divine or as human, or both? In what proportion? Please make a case out of your opinion and do not throw with words and so-called „universal,” aprioristic-known truths!
If religions are viewed as principally ideologies then that makes more sense and a route into understanding their pervasiveness, intolerance and claims to separate access to divine forces. Temples, churches, mosques are merely symbols of their ideologies identifying their natures, and in that fashion carry energy, power and information easily accessed by acolytes. Thereby they work through known brain processes seen also in more slender cultural facets such as celebrities, colleges, education, nationalism, and various political ideologies.
It is not the case that science has not offered an answer, it is more that the answer is not about origins through intentionality but through entrophy and randomness/which is good enough to me. The origin of human beings is well attested through genetics and anthropology, but if you refuse to listen then you believe there is no answer.
Stanley Wilkin, maybe i wasn't too clear, but it was never my intention with this Q to place religions in any contact with science. I was just looking for contextual answers whether religion(s) can be accepted as self-asserted - that is DIVINE -, or, on the contrary, we should embrace them as fully human. On what ground - either response? What are the consequences, good or bad, for them (religions)? and so on...
tks for following the thread,
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