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"Antireligion" as noted before, could refer to a reconstruction, if you will, of the thing which is generally regarded as a fundamental human impulse in a manner that doesn't suffer from the defects above observed in all the current religions known to me. While the better ones don't assert belief about counterfactual states of affairs in the physical world, they still fail the not even wrong test. In this § I sketch some expectations of such an Antireligion. | "Antireligion" as noted before, could refer to a reconstruction, if you will, of the thing which is generally regarded as a fundamental human impulse in a manner that doesn't suffer from the defects above observed in all the current religions known to me. While the better ones don't assert belief about counterfactual states of affairs in the physical world, they still fail the not even wrong test. In this § I sketch some expectations of such an Antireligion. | ||
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*To be consistent with rather than opposed to science and true knowledge, our Antireligion must not assert beliefs about the world including relations between between beings but rather find them out (delegated to the relevant scientific discipline, if it exists and functions properly).<br> | *To be consistent with rather than opposed to science and true knowledge, our Antireligion must not assert beliefs about the world including relations between between beings but rather find them out (delegated to the relevant scientific discipline, if it exists and functions properly).<br><br> | ||
*It must address the same concerns as religions do and further it must do so better (as would be expected if the calumny of "a lie at the heart of being" were redacted):<br><br> | *It must address the same concerns as religions do and further it must do so better (as would be expected if the calumny of "a lie at the heart of being" were redacted):<br><br> | ||
** The will and desire to overcome animal death. | ** The will and desire to overcome animal death. | ||
** Relations between human beings and between Man and other living beings, in particular ... | ** Relations between human beings and between Man and other living beings, in particular ... | ||
** ... Other, superior beings, | ** ... Other, superior beings, in the distant universe (which they would have to be if they were able to communicate with us since we currently lack even the ability to conceive of how to practically communicate with them).<br><br> | ||
* It follows from the first bullet above that it will have a strong aspect of [[:en:methodological solipsism]]. | * It follows from the first bullet above that it will have a strong aspect of [[:en:methodological solipsism]]. | ||
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