Alty, you seem to mistake my beliefs.
Religion is GOOD.
Very Good, even if it is full of lies. Atheist Societies are miserable societies. Religious Societies are happy societies. I favor religion because it is beneficial towards mankind. Its truth is irrelevant. Indeed, I believe that there should be a Human Religion that is maintained for the greater good.
For years, we hid in caves because we were afraid.
We hid because we believed in Gods and Monsters.
But now? We have the opportunity to control the Gods. The Gods of yesterday are our servants.
Demeter is our slave; we control how the crops grow in Greenhouses.
Ares grows weaker by the day; war dies out and is replaced by unsteady peace.
We have surpassed Dionysus; new methods for changing the mind are developed.
We create machines Hephaestus could only dream of; we surpass his craftsmanship.
We are in control, and for the first time we have the opportunity to say to the gods "You are in our seats".
Of course, that's overly optimistic.
We're idiots. We would make very bad Gods. We would be tyrants.
Our greatest enemy is not Hades. It isn't even the gods.
It's us.
To go forward, we must first vanquish our own foolishness and selfishness.
In a nutschel:
Humans are evil. And really stupid.
Whether gods exist or not, (whole other debate) , it is clear we are on par with some Ancient Gods.
Evil+Stupid+Power.
This cannot end well.
So we need to tamp down the Evil and Stupid.
There is only one thing that can do that.
Gods.
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