Timeline for Why would a scientifically advanced future community believe in multiple gods?
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| May 30, 2018 at 20:16 | comment | added | Ummdustry | It's worth noting that faith really isn't always entire rational. people can believe in stuff simply 'beacuse they do' many people both theist and atheist describe "a god shaped hole" in themselves. sure not everyone in a society will but as others have said you only need a small proportion of a population to be TRUE BELIEVERS to make a faith dominant. | |
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 8:41 | answer | added | Durakken | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jan 15, 2017 at 20:21 | comment | added | vsz | @MaliceVidrine : but it all started as a very small minority in a polytheistic-dominated world, so before the time it had any political and military might, it had to be able to spread on its own merit. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 20:10 | comment | added | Malice Vidrine | It's worth mentioning that the prevalence of essentially monotheistic religions was probably helped substantially by the success of the colonial projects of Christian and Muslim nations, rather than being some natural result of "progress", whatever that is exactly. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | vsz | @MattBowyer : it does. There are significant differences between monotheism and polytheism, and the difference is not merely the number of deities, but their very nature. In polytheistic traditions, the deities are not all too different from superpowered humans, living in the same physical reality. In monotheism, God is the creator of reality itself. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 11:51 | answer | added | coteyr | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 5:28 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @NZKshatriya relevant information should be edited into the post. Readers shouldn't have to dig through comments to understand a question and its answers. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 4:04 | comment | added | NZKshatriya | I have a question for the mods: If this is world building, where we help people build their worlds, shouldn't philosophical discussion on said question be allowed in comments as opposed to chat, as the comments help bring out factors that help the OP determine how their world works? If so, leaving the comments in place allows for others who come to this posting see the chain of logic that leads up to a determination. | |
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| Jan 13, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | Hot Licks | See The New Yorker, Jan 9, 2017, pp 70-73, and the works of Julian Jaynes, ca 1965, in particular The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. There is a theory that "voices in your head" were, in the past, interpreted as gods speaking, and genetic changes reduced/eliminated this tendency. No reason that the opposite might not apply to an alien culture. | |
| Jan 13, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | Leon7C | Would it be possible in your world for the gods to have put observable scientific phenomenon into affect? For example, we know where thunder comes from, but could "Thor" be responsible for helping to construct a universe where the laws of physics allow thunder to occur? Additionally, could "Thor" affect how those laws of physics play out in your world? | |
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| Jan 12, 2017 at 15:59 | comment | added | Matt Bowyer | I don't think that the current dominance of monotheism has anything to do with scientific enlightenment - after all, the dominance began over a thousand years ago when people were no more scientifically-englightened than they were in Greek and pre-Christian Roman times - in many cases less so. The two dominant religions in our contemporary world are dominant because of the cultures that practice them, and their military, economic, political and cultural power. | |
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| S Jan 12, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. I've deleted quite a few off-topic comments about philosophy, and any further comments on the matter will be deleted. | |
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 21:35 | comment | added | Devsman | The simple answer is because they have been scientifically proven in your world. | |
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | How would your society argue against an atheist who claims there are 0 gods? The answer to that question typically starts to suggest where the holes are in the society without religion, and one can then follow those holes to arrive at your answer regarding which religion they will use. | |
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 19:31 | comment | added | Mołot | What does scientific advancement have to do with belief? | |
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