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Originally Posted by awareness
Science will continue changes that surpass that of religions. So fast religions will be left in its dust. Watch and see, while you live. In a hundred years it will be undeniable.
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True religion is taking care of widows and orphans. This did not occur prior to the agricultural revolution. We now know that the life of the foragers was more challenging and a higher standard of living than that of the early adopters of agriculture. They (early farmers) didn't choose this life because of the glamor or wealth. Rather, what is far more likely is that they couldn't make the cut to be part of the elite forager tribes. We have evidence that hunter gatherer tribes were very selective, killing members that did not measure up in one way or another.
It was the agricultural revolution that found a place for the less "gifted". This is where the mundane jobs were invented. This boredom was critical to our development because it forced us to focus our creativity in other areas like inventions and story telling. We have stories that date back to the beginning of the Agricultural revolution, but have little to no stories of hunter gatherer tribes, even those that lived relatively recently.
It was the agricultural revolution that first made true religion a reality. A society where widows and orphans could have a place, contribute to society and be cared for in return.
But by contrast we find the laws governing widows and orphans from six thousand years ago to be barbaric. As we developed industry, science and technology our standard of living increased to the point we could be horrified by the treatment of the elderly, infirm, widows, orphans and pets. Compare this to one former hunter gatherer in the Amazon rain forest who said 'his job used to be to sneak up on the old women who couldn't keep up and kill them, but now that he lives with the whites he has become weak.' (Sapiens). Clearly the hunter gatherer tribes did not have true religion.
Although Awareness longs for the day when religion will be left in the dust, it seems to me that the arc of inventions (robots to take of people, better health care, replacing jobs with robots) indicates exactly the opposite. As for science the most arrogant of them have claimed their "superiority" to faith (which they refer to as myths, i.e. false beliefs), yet all they have been able to do is confirm things that were written thousands of years earlier.