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Originally Posted by dr wu23
Not earth shattering perhaps but certainly so influential they have caused many problems over the millenia that possibly could have been avoided.
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But Wu a lot of things have been influential and caused problems for humanity, not just religions. You can't place religion in some kind of historical vacuum and make it the bogeyman. IMO religion was usually co-opted and used as a convenient hook to hang more selfish agendas on.
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What value do you specifically see in these various religious myths and beliefs?
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Too many to go into, but we certainly derived a lot of our morals, mores, social/cultural cohesion, knowledge, science etc. I'm not saying it's relevent now but it certainly guided us to where we are now in many cases.