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Humans didn't invent agriculture (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Your argument is that because you can imagine a god and spread the idea they are real.

You could say the same of Mickey Mouse or the Philly Fanatic. Which is, in fairness, where this is ultimately going.

A god as a timeless enlightened super-being might not be real. But a god as an ideological mascot or cultural touchstone is.