/lit/ - Literature

>>22717889
The eye of Sauron watches you. Even when you shit.

>>21232375
>depth, nuance, or seek to build a bridge with religious communities
Agreed. There are much better atheistic books for that.

>>20534476
>faith is a
cultural adaptation, that was unironically helping you to survive in a stable-enough unchanging environment.

If, say, you have a ritual "Wash your hands! Don't ask why, motherfucker!", then being a skeptic and refusing to do it, you would only risk getting dysentery.
But, if, say, a water-source has been poisoned, then being a skeptic is a winning strategy. You survive, zealots go extinct.

Nowadays, science makes an environment too unstable to employ religious tactics, and thus, gods are dead.

>>20268586
>religion is the worst thing you could possibly offer
Scientists disagree with you.

>>20221944
>>Jung
>>Evola
Complete retard.

>>Discover Jung, learn religion is a symbolic expression
>>Realise reality itself is inherently meaningful
Discover neuroscience, learn you can conjure apophenia out of your ass.

>>Read Evola
i.e. "People like skiing, because katagogic movement downwards, hurr durr, civilization doomed"

>>Read Nietzsche
Obviously, you have not read him well enough.

>>The answer was in front of my eyes all along
The answer is: religion is a biological group selection mechanism. Because retards should not be allowed to think.