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In reply to the discussion: Near-death study: Brains explode with activity as heart stops [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Might even put species survival at risk.
Either it "evolves" and becomes harmonious to human survival...
Also it developed for one simple reason...explaining the world. Well, we have new tools to explain the world. We also know that for example the Old Testament was a tool of late state formation, as in 7th century BCE. Perhaps David was the first historic person, but not a king, a chieftain.
Oh and David went back 300 years...I forgot to add that..but he was the first for whom we have some evidence. Perhaps Noah, the story is Babybolian, and goes back to the 11th century BCE.
I read what you said about Jesus bellow. What he was, assuming he existed...the evidence is thin at best...is that he was not unlike Rabbi Akiva...part of the movement challenging the power establishment of the era...and rabbi means teacher.
But the myth...he died and came back after three days, he lived only thirty years, and the rest...has a lot in common with Mithraism, which was a common religion of Rome in the Mediteranean, as well as Horus, and a few other religions.
I think at least a good portion of humanity is now able to give up on gods...because what we are funding about nature through science, see Biiggs Boson for example, or Quantum Mechanics...is far superior to any sacred book.
The US is behind other advanced economies...but with the young it is starting to catch up, and given what we face, I don't need prayers, I need scientists.
Now as to life after death, even science has an explanation...no...not the soul...information is not lost...and given brains look more and more like quantum computers...