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I dunno. I am a strong atheist, but not an anti-theist. I find the idea of deities to be fascinating in general, though monotheism is pretty boring. I wonder if I'd have been more likely to be religious if I'd been raised in a polytheistic culture.
@StarkRG . nah, religion is for them, it’s an ild habit, I always talked to God, or prayed, while I never thought of it as literal, just some word to talk to. It’s just I’d like to stop because my whole worldview has changed since that made any sense at all. Now God is less of a metaphor for anybody and more just my enemy’s metaphor. 😠💜
In my early 20s I was a loose anti-theist, that is I thought it was a delusion and that there was absolutely no benefit to religion, I only saw the evils and the neutrals (mostly the evils). Watching Star Trek DS9 changed that. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's a delusion, but there are some positives at a personal level. It's still primarily evil, though.
@StarkRG . Yes it is. . But it’s the neurotype, the Allistic asks questions that demand fictional answers, Why are we here, Who made us? There’s no true answer for that shit. People make religions, not the other way around. Allistic atheists are better about God, but no better about people. 😠💜
Polytheistic religions have their own problems, but I think monotheisms take it to a whole other level and *that's* what causes people to be anti-theist. They rely heavily on the argument from authority fallacy. "I'm not telling you this, *God* is telling you this." There is only one truth and it's the one I'm telling you. Polytheism has much less of that (by necessity, there are multiple gods, so you get to choose from more than one authority).
What really rubs me the wrong way about monotheism, though, is the premise that there could be an omnipotent and omniscient entity that was also omni-benevolent. If they they know everything, and can do anything, then by what possible benevolence do they not? In polytheisms, gods usually aren't omnipotent or omniscient, which means it's entirely reasonable for them to be benevolent but still not be able to act. Entities that are not benevolent do not deserve veneration.
@StarkRG . Yes. I think the first monotheism, the goddess was everyone’s god, and this male one is just the Allistics’ god. I’m not sure where polytheism belongs in history, seems like maybe after the goddess and before this one, like the many minor gods were transitional - the goddess became Ishtar, and Persephone, like that, just one of many after being the One, and then all those goddesses suffered downgrades while some tournament played out among the male ones? . Or maybe there were just always lots of minor deities, before and after. Maybe some of both. 💜
No, polytheism would have been first. At the very least the Sun and the Moon, but probably also weather, rivers, forests, fear, feasts, etc. They're anthropomorphisms of aspects of the complex system that is the world in which humans live. Nobody was claiming to know for sure what they were saying, but there were definitely patterns there if you paid attention.
Human consciousness seems to have been evolved especially to be good at interpreting patterns in human behaviour (yes, even autistics, if anything, we're a further adaptation of that basic start). Thus when we started trying to interpret patterns in nature, we interpreted them *as* human-like behaviour.
@StarkRG . Autistics are forever. Allistics and their warrior gods are new, since the ice. That’s the version I’m going with. Our pattern solving isn’t new and strange, their constant war is. Less than ten thousand years and they’ve trashed the place.
I agree that neurology spectrums existed from before we were humans (and I'm counting all hominid species, not just Homo Sapiens), but our sapience, our consciousness, our ability for meta-cognition (thinking about thinking), came about as an evolutionary pressure for social cohesiveness. The neurological traits that would develop into autism were already there, but what I mean is that we use that developed consciousness slightly differently. [...]
We may be slow at using it for social purposes, but it's like everyone was given the tool (conscious thought) that people were using to groom each other, and we were like "while you guys were over there doing that, I smashed some rocks together and they broke apart, then I cut myself on one of the chips and realised I could put it on the end of a stick and poke things with it to make them dead, here have some bacon."
@StarkRG . I’ll allow that - but not on the normal folks’ timeline. It may have begun that way but not since the Ice age. We had plenty of time to work up to monotheism before that, three hundred thousand years, and the Neolithic world had goddess statues everywhere. The normal narrative is like the wold began when the bible says it did, they are stuck on a very short version of the history of the world. They didn’t invent monotheism.
I don't think you're correct about "not since the ice age" or that monotheism is the obvious direction that religions develop towards. Somewhere around half of all religious people are monotheists, with atheists making up less than 10%, that's still a significant portion of the world being polythesits. I don't doubt that monotheism would have been created early on, probably by tribal leaders using the aforementioned argument from authority, but that wouldn't have spread far.
@StarkRG . I don’t think those were my points. I’m not theorizing about the Neolithic goddess monotheism, that’s from #ChaliceAndTheBlade , and there’s sort of a whole school around the pre-fortress world of the Neolithic. I didn’t say it was the original religion, but I didn’t say it wasn’t, I just said it was monotheistic and predates Greece and Egypt and Yahweh
That's mostly just the European region, though, and even then, most of Europe was polytheistic until Christianity started spreading in the first half-century AD. Even then, there were considerable polytheistic religions until Christians started killing them for not being Christians (or not being the *right* Christians).
Christianity is a fairly *recent* development, only roughly the last 2,000 years of humans' 6 million. Judaism a bit longer than that, something like 10,000.
@StarkRG . Monotheism is a bit of a relative term, they all have their casts of characters, Christianity has a thousand local saints and such, and big ones, Saint Peter. The monogod has a mother! . It’s a sad and poignant part of the narrative in the Chalice that the Mother of God, formerly the goddess, has wound up as the only female and the only mortal in the Christian pantheon. But it’s also evidence of the goddess’ psychological existence that even the Christian church has to include her. 💜
It's literally not, though. "Mono" means "one," referring to the belief in a single, all-powerful deity. Polytheism doesn't mean that all the deities are equal, but there is no single all-powerful deity, they have their areas of influence, but they can't or aren't allowed to act much outside that area. For example, Mars, the god of war, isn't going to concern himself much with the doings of brewers or fishmongers, and you'll only pray to him for war-related requests.
Saints are definitely not the same thing as gods. They're mortals imbued with limited divine power. That might have their areas of influence, but they're completely overshadowed by the single, all-powerful God, they are merely his instrument.
@StarkRG . you’re giving me dictionary definitions, I’m giving history. People in these cultures do not give up their local volcano gods and such, and still count themselves as Christians, etc. The trinity is a mini pantheon all in itself, people surely get punished by the father or the ghost and saved by the son in different functions too. There isn’t a lot of pure monotheism like that, it’s only for the philosophers.
If you say so. As I said, I find monotheism pretty boring and it's adherents talking about it at least as much (especially when they quote the Bible or whatever with no critical thinking happening at all as if it's some magic tome whose meaning is obvious and unequivocal). This means I know significantly less about the details of monotheistic religions than I do more interesting topics.
@StarkRG . Yes, same, me too. Now I see the very universal nature of a single god as exactly Allism, as exactly some mad declaration that the world is not real, that sort of universality is mythological, one single simple arrangement is not hiw anything really works. The more universal the god becomes, the more pure the delusion. 🤨😇💜
In some ways, monotheism is inherently narcissistic. If you consider yourself a good and moral person (and what person doesn't, from time to time), then (nearly) everything you do is God's will. You can praise yourself for doing God's work when you succeed, and can shift blame when you make mistakes (God works in mysterious ways, He's got a plan for us all). You don't really get that in polytheistic religions, your choices and actions are your own, for good or ill.
@StarkRG . OK here’s what I was typing when this came through: . I’m not very interested in the different flavours, we got river gods, they got saints, they do have martyrs, they do assimilate the disagreers too. . The details may change, but the neurological structure is probably all the same, big boss and some sort of bureaucracy, authority - Allism, that’s what I’m getting at. History is the progress of the Allistic genetic disorder, is my big theory. 😀 . and here’s something for this one: ooh, I like that, OK, in that way, I must assign polytheism to the pre-Allistic mind. It’s probably a forever thing, huh. 💜
Oh, they definitely don't all have hierarchies, that's mostly a European thing. Even then is a much flatter structure than monotheism, the top god can still be overpowered or tricked by the other gods. Saints are not at all the equivalent of gods. Angels would be closer, but even then they're the messengers doing God's bidding. Polytheistic gods don't do each other's bidding, they trade, negotiate, gamble, etc. They don't serve, they are gods.
@StarkRG . Fine, angels, then! 😜 And again, I like the polytheism too, it’s clearly primal. . EDIT TO ADD: and again, the classical polytheism looks transitional, a hybrid of the egalitarian thing you describe and Zeus taking over to wind up as Yahweh. 💜 . Here’s what I was typing as that one came in: @StarkRG . you’re onto it there. . I recently framed it like this, that “morality,” used to mean what worked, what was sustainable, but they introduce their god, the Giver of Laws - and now morality is some just some bullshit the obviously fictional Man in the Sky said, so now morality is entirely optional, because it’s fictional, and they can organize their lives around . . . crime, basically. . EDIT TO ADD: Open pit mining, because really, who’s to say what’s right and wrong? It’s a mythological question now, not real life. 😠
Here's what I've discovered, every person has their own morals and ethics that they develop over time (and have the capacity for continuing to develop for our whole lives). While I have no doubt that religion plays a decent role in that development for people brought up in one, a bigger impact comes from their parents and peers. At some point they stop being influenced by their religious teachings and, instead, begin to interpret their religion through their morality. [...]
This results in reinforcing prejudices and is used as an excuse for ba behaviour. Because people are generally bad at critical thinking, they have a huge blind spot to circular arguments and confirmation bias. They see their opinions reflected in their religion and ignore everything that doesn't. Their prejudices and bad behaviour get reinforced. Someone's belief system is influenced by their actions and opinions, not the other way around.
@StarkRG . yes, a point I’ve been on about lately, it is environmental factors more powerful than speech that creates the Allistic personality. Their “morality,” is the logic produced by “spanking.” 👍💜💜💜
Maybe. I think that's just a generational trauma they inflict because they experienced it. Of course, their reactions to things can certainly be coloured by that trauma.
We have conscious thought, evolutionary behaviours can be overcome. They have to be since our technological and social development has significantly outpaced evolution. What was a somewhat useful behaviour a century ago (like some guy in his mid-20s following a teen girl home from school) is no longer necessary (because there are easier, less stalker ways to find dates and a much larger population to draw from) and does more harm than good, so we need to stop those behaviours.
@StarkRG . by me the greek pantheon is new and Allistic, and they may not be all powerful, but Zeus is the boss, it’s got the structure of authority, it’s different like you say, but also, some male rapist is on top, this is why I’m wondering, not declaring, if that polytheism was transitional. . And we still have them, that’s a proper education, knowing about those gods and goddesses, we still talk about them and their diffent aspects, even the Christians still do.
Yes, Zeus was the boss, but he was not all powerful, he was just the boss and the other gods could disagree with him and held primacy in their own domains. A saint (or any clergy, for that matter) disagreeing with the Christian God wouldn't make much sense.
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