Don't take this statement the wrong way, lol... but I kinda wish there were still societies that did human sacrifice.

LET ME EXPLAIN!! I'm obviously happy that we don't offer up our babies to the flames of molech, however, the armchair psychologist in me would actually love to interview someone from a society like the Aztecs or the caninites who killed their own children to offer to their Gods. I'd love to know how they feel about it, what's it's like to be that religiously zealous. It's fascinating to me the things humans do.

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“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We did not know that micro-organisms were so powerful and lived in our digestive systems in order to enable us to live, as well as mounting lethal attacks on us as parasites. We did not know of our close kinship with other animals. We believed that sprites, imps, demons, and djinns were hovering in the air about us. We imagined that thunder and lightning were portentous. It has taken us a long time to shrug off this heavy coat of ignorance and fear, and every time we do there are self-interested forces who want to compel us to put it back on again.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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@BlueSkyKing Honestly, this is a smart 15 year olds thoughts on the world. The New Atheists, who Hitchens was among, have all drastically changed their tone.

I don't think most religions are literally true, and should be thought of as such. I also don't think religions are irrelevant psychologically, societally, or communally. It's actually a bold claim of hitchens to say religion was man's first attempt to make sense of the world, as opposed to the jungian theory of archetypes which would suggest that religous rituals and motifs evolved simultaniously with man's ability to reason and make sense of the world. Hitchens has to offer evidence to the origin of religion since he's the one with the positive claim.

Hitchens was entertaining tho.Very witty guy.

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