BetteTheRed
Resident Heretic
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This keeps on coming up, and I confess to not getting it.
Religious beliefs are clearly pretty unique to humanity, as far as we know. No communication attempts (even those that are somewhat successful, as between domestic animals and humans, or primates and humans) indicate that non-humans have any sort of religious belief system.
There's lots of different belief systems, they certainly sometimes contradict each other, but they're all a human construction, from the evidence, anyway. Even if one accepts the existence of a supernatural, external to us, "God", clearly this "being" communicates with humans exclusively, right? I mean otherwise, octupi and porpoises and orangutan would be passing on messages from "God", right?
So how could any relationship to any sort of God be other than "man-made"?
Religious beliefs are clearly pretty unique to humanity, as far as we know. No communication attempts (even those that are somewhat successful, as between domestic animals and humans, or primates and humans) indicate that non-humans have any sort of religious belief system.
There's lots of different belief systems, they certainly sometimes contradict each other, but they're all a human construction, from the evidence, anyway. Even if one accepts the existence of a supernatural, external to us, "God", clearly this "being" communicates with humans exclusively, right? I mean otherwise, octupi and porpoises and orangutan would be passing on messages from "God", right?
So how could any relationship to any sort of God be other than "man-made"?