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Date: November 02, 2017 10:17AM
“A common view of religion in atheist or humanist writers is that it is a kind of blend of cosmology – a theory of the universe – and morality. The cosmology is typically described in terms of something like Richard Dawkins’s God Hypothesis: “there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately designed and created the universe and everything in it, including us”. And the morality involves commitment to something like the commandments and teachings of the Bible, the Qur’an or other sacred text. In this picture, the link between the cosmology and the morality is often made through the idea of the afterlife: we must behave well, according to the morality of the church or the Bible or the Qur’an, because if we do we will have eternal life in heaven with God, and if we don’t we will have eternal damnation or punishment in hell.
“I am sure this picture of the essence of religion will be familiar to many. But it seems to me deeply inadequate, and its persistence frustrates the proper understanding of the phenomenon of religion and religious belief...”
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/tim-crane-religion-philosophy/I don’t agree with everything in this article, but it goes a long way towards reframing the woefully inadequate framing of many popular atheists.
Recovery is many things. Part of it for me involved coming to an understanding, an honest and charitable understanding, of what it is exactly I left and why exactly do people stay.
Human