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Originally Posted by Giligan
I suppose that what I mean by "What would the world be like if religion didn't exist?" is "What would society be like if we humans didn't believe in the same (if evolved and developed) set of beliefs our ancestors used to describe the terrifying and unknown world outside, as they huddled in ignorance in a cave, scrawling on the walls with charcoal?"
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We'd find something else to believe in instead (which many people already do, for that matter) because attempting to describe the terrifying and unknown world outside seems to be something we just can't stop doing, no matter how circumstances change.
