What long standing and popular ideas or practices have at some point became copletely absolete and were not practices or thought of again in all of human society?
Can something like the belief in a deity be completely forsakened at some point?
>>1298621
No, there's a part in our brain that makes us believe in a higher being... Why do you think you have "atheist" churches in the US or all those cults still growing like mushrooms
>>1298621
Also, what valeuable things were taken away from the abrahamic religions by science and what important things remained?
>>1298624
Atheist chruches are not about belief in a higher being per se but can be seen as a result of people being used to congregating in churches.
> Can something like the belief in a deity be completely forsakened at some point?
Yes. It is absolute even by modern standards. While higher absolute of some sort seems like at least a logical necessity in many systems, deity that is like person would become obsolete like it was with personifications of forest, rocks and other shit, including literal one by pagans.
And what is the power of religion? We do see that even supposedly educated westerners suddenly adop a religion.
What is the power of religion that appeals to people who are living amongst the result of scientific dicovery?
What did the scientific method take away from religion and what did it not?
Or perhaps a return to religion is simply an indication of a disfunctional education system?
>>1298655
> What did the scientific method take away from religion
Miracles. When you can explain the trick there is no magic.
>>1298665
Well, first of all, people in advanced western countries still believe in miracles. Miracles as meaningful rare coincidences...
>>1298621
spontaneous generation
